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    Mar 03, 2020 4 minutes

    THIS IS NOT A BURIAL, IT’S A RESURRECTION

    LEMOHANG JEREMIAH MOSESE

    RYPTIC AND SINGULAR IN SHAPE and rigorously specific to its setting in the highlands of Lesotho, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s third feature tells the story of an 80-year-old woman, Mantoa (Mary Twala Mhlongo), who is informed that her village is about to be flooded for the construction of a dam, forcing its residents to resettle in the city. But Mantoa is resolute in her desire to be buried alongside her ancestors, even as her neighbors pack up their belongings and dig up their dead to take them along. Mosese’s story is based on the realities of the apartheid-era Lesotho Highlands Water Project, but the film unfolds like a surrealist fable: an oneiric opening

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