Entered in the Oscars, the story of a widow’s will to live is a story Lesotho’s residents, and the rest of us, deserve to see
There is no cinema in Lesotho but it has a film entered for the best international feature film category at next year’s Oscars.
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection tells the story of 80-year-old Mantoa, grief-stricken after the deaths of her husband, daughter and, finally, her son, a mineworker in South Africa. Having lost everything, Mantoa is preparing to die herself and makes arrangements for her funeral. Then she discovers that her village is to be destroyed to build a reservoir. Defying the development becomes her new purpose for living.
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