This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

Directed by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese • 2019 • Lesotho, South Africa
Starring Mary Twala, Makhaola Ndebele, Jerry Mofokeng

With a poet’s eye for place, light, and the spiritual dimensions of everyday existence, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese crafts a meditation on the concept of homeland and a transcendent elegy for what is lost in the name of progress. Grieving and alone following the deaths of her husband and children, elderly Mantoa (Mary Twala Mhlongo, in a soul-shaking end-of-life performance) prepares for her own death and to be buried alongside her ancestors. When plans for a new dam near her village in the landlocked kingdom of Lesotho threaten to literally wash away all she holds dear, Mantoa takes a last stand, mobilizing her neighbors to fight for their land and their way of life. The experience of watching Mosese’s visionary, much-lauded THIS IS NOT A BURIAL, IT’S A RESURRECTION is as timeless and elemental as the land itself.

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This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection
  • This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection
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    This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

    This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

    Directed by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese • 2019 • Lesotho, South Africa
    Starring Mary Twala, Makhaola Ndebele, Jerry Mofokeng

    With a poet’s eye for place, light, and the spiritual dimensions of everyday existence, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese crafts a meditation on the concept of homeland and a transcen...

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  • THIS IS NOT A BURIAL, IT'S A RESURRECTION Commentary
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    THIS IS NOT A BURIAL, IT'S A RESURRECTION Commentary

    THIS IS NOT A BURIAL, IT'S A RESURRECTION Commentary

    This commentary track, recorded in 2022, features director Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese and producer Cait Pansegrouw.

  • Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese Interview
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    Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese Interview

    Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese Interview

    In this introduction, recorded in Berlin in the summer of 2022, director Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese discusses the creative process behind MOTHER, I AM SUFFOCATING. THIS IS MY LAST FILM ABOUT YOU. (2019); BEHEMOTH: OR THE GAME OF GOD (2016); and MOSONNGOA (2014).

  • Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You.
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    Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You.

    Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You.

    Directed by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese • 2019 • Germany, Lesotho

    Part poetic essay, part documentary, this rapturous film by director Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese (THIS IS NOT A BURIAL, IT’S A RESURRECTION) analyzes the complexities of his relationship to his native country of Lesotho from his new hom...

  • Behemoth: or the Game of God
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    Behemoth: or the Game of God

    Behemoth: or the Game of God

    Directed by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese • 2016 • Lesotho, Germany
    Starring Tseko Monaheng

    A preacher walks the streets of Lesotho’s capital, Maseru, dragging a mysterious coffin whose contents elicit unexpected—and unscripted—reactions from passersby.

  • Mosonngoa
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    Mosonngoa

    Mosonngoa

    Directed by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese • 2014 • Lesotho
    Starring Siphiwe Nzima-Ntskhe, Masele Tokane, Chaka Phehlamarole Khalechene

    Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese made this narrative short film in 2014, inspired by the real-life legend of Lesotho’s only known female stick fighter.

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