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Sundance Prizewinner Lemohang Mosese Muses on Exile and Belonging in Berlinale Premiere ‘Ancestral Visions of the Future’
Sundance prizewinner Lemohang Mosese's third feature blurs the lines between reality and reconstruction to tell a story of dislocation and belonging.
Through fragmented narratives involving a young boy, a market woman and a puppeteer, it explores the director’s childhood in the mountainous Southern African kingdom of Lesotho, as well as the exile that has marked his life as an adult in Berlin. Tapping into what he describes as “a very raw and primal and rage-y space,” Mosese finally chose to go back to Lesotho: to return to the moment when his family was evicted and forced to relocate to the outskirts of his hometown, Hlotse. Mosese is among the more provocative filmmakers working in Africa today, and as with his previous films, “Ancestral Visions of the Future” is an excoriating critique of the legacy of exploitation and violence wrought on the continent by the former colonial powers.
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