U-Carmen eKhayelitsha - a Mark Dornford-May film

Official Selection - Toronto International Film Festival
Official Selection - Cannes Film Festival
Golden Bear Award - Berlin International Film Festival

"A piece of arthouse genius!"
- THE TIMES LONDON

"A rousing and imaginative contemporary adaptation of George Bizet's 19th-century opera"
- Tom Dawson, BBC

"Classic opera travels to contemporary South Africa and finds a comfortable home amid a shantytown setting"
-  Russell Edwards, VARIETY

Starring: Pauline Malefane (Carmen), Andries Mbali (Bra Nkomo), Andiswa Kedama (Amanda)

The most-performed opera in the world gets a new spin in U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, which sets the famous opera Carmen in modern-day South Africa.  The music, translated and sung in Xhosa and mixed with traditional song, gives the film a thrilling synthesis of Xhosa culture and European opera, while still telling the age-old story of love and obsession, duty and desire, jealousy, revenge and madness.

2005, South Africa, 120 minutes