The award-winning film director, Lemohang Mosese’s documentary titled “Ancestral Visions of the Future” has been acquired by Memento International prior to its debut at the Berlin Film Festival.
Mosese’s new project, titled “Ancestral Visions of the Future,” serves as a sequel to his critically acclaimed work, “This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection,” which premiered at Venice in 2019 and received the special jury award for visionary filmmaking at Sundance in 2020. In this documentary, Mosese collaborates once more with Memento, the company that sold “This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection” to over 20 countries and showcased it at over 80 festivals, even during the pandemic. The film won more than 30 awards globally and is now part of the prestigious Criterion Collection.
In “Ancestral Visions of the Future,” Berlin-based filmmaker and visual artist Mosese, delves into a narrative that seamlessly blends reality with reinterpretation as he reflects on his own upbringing in Lesotho, a small African country sandwiched between other southern nations. Mosese examines the incidents that fractured and molded him throughout his life. According to Memento International’s synopsis, we follow Mosese from the rough, gravel-strewn roads of his early childhood playground, where he fashioned cars out of wire, to the indifferent cityscapes of exile where he became a faceless figure. His memories are entwined with the presence of his mother, a symbol of watchfulness and resistance.
Mosese stated, “At its heart, this movie is a biographical piece,” he explained, having previously worked on “Mother, I am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You,” a 2019 Berlinale Forum premiere visual essay. “However, it’s not about exile in the traditional sense; rather, it delves into the yearning that drives it, exploring themes of beauty, violence, dislocation, recollection, and the delicate construction of losing oneself.
Starring in ‘Visionaries of Tomorrow Based on Tradition’ are actors Siphiwe Nzima, Sobo Bernard, Zaman Mathejane, Mochesane Kotsoane, and Rehauhetsoe Kotsoane.
Marie Balducchi, from renowned French production house Agat Films, collaborated with Mosese’s Mokoari Street Media in Lesotho to create this compelling documentary. Alongside them, Laura Kloeckner of Seera Films and Anan Fries, a creative producer at Mokoari, served as co-producers. This project received backing from Arte La Lucarne, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, the World Cinema Fund, the Doha Film Institute, and the Red Sea Film Festival Foundation.
Ancestral Visions of the Future” is part of Memento International’s 20th anniversary lineup, alongside Berlinale Panorama titles like “Dreams in Nightmares” and the buzzing Sundance midnight title “The Ugly Stepsister.” Other movies represented by this sales company include Hailey Gates’ Sundance film “Atropia,” Camille Perton’s film starring Edgar Ramirez titled “Arenas,” Damiano Michieletto’s debut “Primavera” in the opera director category, Haifaa Al-Mansour’s crime thriller “Unidentified,” and Laurent Micheli’s social thriller “Nino in Paradise.
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2025-02-07 13:47