This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection


This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection is the second film I'm going to talk about. It was directed and written by Mosotho (The Sotho people, or Basotho, are a Bantu ethnic group of Southern Africa who speak Sesotho) Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese born in 1980, Hlotse, Lesotho. He’s is a self-taught filmmaker. As a co-creator of Barefoot Cinema and Mokoari collective, he promotes radical auteur cinema as well as the achievements of Third Cinema (Third Cinema is a Latin American film movement that started in the 1960s–70s which decries neocolonialism, the capitalist system, and the Hollywood model of cinema as mere entertainment to make money[1]). He made several films as the latter meet with an ever better response.

In This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection we measure tradition against modernity. Director gave the voice to those, who usually remain silent. Mantoa, the main character, is a widow mourning the death mainly of her recently deceased son, but she has basically lost all her family. As she doesn’t want to be alive but just joins her loved ones, she’s planning her own burial, in vain. Firstly, because it’s against “religious law” secondly because the government decided to build a dam which will destroy the village as well as the cemetery.  She doesn’t want to die alone, so she refuses to leave the place and starts to battle over the dam that will flood a tiny village in Lesotho.

The director claims " I am not for or against progress. I am more interested in questioning the psychological, spiritual and social elements that come with it. New and old. Birth and death." and that's where the power of the movie is.



[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Cinema                                                                                              

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  1. Michał Bryja14 décembre 2020 à 11:46

    This film seems to be incredibly interesting and moving, I'd love to see it. I really appreciate the fact that you present not-mainstream movies. :)

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    1. Ewa Góralczyk7 janvier 2021 à 11:30

      This is what I love about non-mainstream movies - they usually shed a new light on the subject. And this is what I seek for. Thank you for dropping in!

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