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ANCESTRAL VISIONS OF THE FUTURE France-Lesotho-Germany-Qatar-Saudi Arabia, 2025, 88 min, color, documentary

In Ancestral Visions of the Future, filmmaker Lemohang Mosese blurs the lines between reality and reconstruction. Through fragmented narratives and mythic imagery, Mosese reflects on dislocation and belonging, returning to his unnamed city –  not for answers, but to remember himself. Yet, Ancestral Visions of the Future is more than a story of one man’s exile – it is an elegy for a city and a people caught between the weight of memory and the inevitability of loss and it is a poetic ode to cinema. 

 

“This film is, at it‘s core, a biographical work. But it is not a story of exile in the conventional sense – it is a meditation on the longing that sustains it. A meditation on beauty, violence, displacement, memory, and the fragile architecture of losing oneself.”

Lemohang Mosese

 

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

Berlin ’25 – Nomination for Documentary Award

Lemohang Mosese

Lemohang Mosese

Lemohang Mosese, a Berlin-based filmmaker and visual artist from Hlotse, Lesotho, explores identity, time, and the cycles of life, death, and rebirth. A self-taught filmmaker, his visual essay Mother, I Am Suffocating, This Is My Last Film About You premiered at Berlinale Forum 2019 and has been featured in renowned festivals and institutions like MoMA. His acclaimed film This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection won over 30 awards, including Sundance’s Visionary Filmmaking Jury Award.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

2013 For Those Whose God Is Dead

2014 Mosonngoa/ short

2019 Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You / doc.

2019 This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection

2025 Ancestral Visions of the Future / doc.

DIRECTOR
Lemohang Mosese
SCRIPT
Lemohang Mosese
CAMERA
Lemohang Mosese, Phillip Leteka
CAST
Siphiwe Nzima, Sobo Bernard, Mochesane Kotsoane, Rehauhetsoe Kotsoane
PRODUCERS
Marie Balducchi
PRODUCTION
Agat Films, Mokoari Street

ANCESTRAL VISIONS OF THE FUTURE France-Lesotho-Germany-Qatar-Saudi Arabia, 2025, 88 min, color, documentary

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