South Africa / 2018 / 105mins / Drama, Musical / English and Zulu

In Asinamali, Comrade Washington, a black struggle activist, returns to South Africa, to work with convicts to create a musical play. The interwoven stories emerge all the way from the Lamontville rent strikes of 1983. Through personal testimony, song, and dance, the prisoners find resilience, liberation and forgiveness. The inmates tell their stories, claim their history, and dance back their identity.

Mbongeni Ngema

Mbongeni Ngema has distinguished himself as a renowned playwright, screenwriter and librettist. He is best known as the writer of the internationally acclaimed and award-winning musical Sarafina!, which toured worldwide, won many awards and was later adapted into a feature film. Ngema has had a string of blockbusters and, in 2001 during the African Renaissance festival, his name was engraved on the entrance of the City Hall in Durban alongside those of Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Miriam Makeba and other heroes of the liberation struggle. Learn More