Discoveries from Lesotho World Cinema

The wastelands and crowded streets of an African country are traversed by a woman bearing a wooden cross on her back. She is followed by sellers, beggars and passersby, outraged voices, pity and curious glances. Parallel to her, among a herd of sheep, a lamb toddles its way from the far away mountains into the heart of the city, only to find itself dangling, skinned and headless, on a butcher’s shoulder. In the meantime, under the scorching sun, in a roofless house, a woman is persistently knitting a garment, unwinding a thread coiled over her son’s face.

A young man reluctantly embarks on a journey to his ancestral land of Lesotho to bury his estranged father, and finds himself drawn to the mystical beauty and hardships of the people and the land he had forgotten.

Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection follow-up Ancestral Visions of the Future is described as being “a deeply personal exploration of identity, childhood, and death,” continuing a running theme in Mosese’s work of wrestling with his childhood in Lesotho and his exile to Germany.

A film about two immigrants, a shop owner in Lesotho and a Doctor in China.This 20min film is about how stereotyping and racial profiling reduces our empathy.

Follows a young man as he travels the mountain kingdom of Lesotho showing his film in remote villages, schools and communities. Sheriff was born with a girl’s body, but as the grandmother in his film recounts, he refused to wear dresses and always wanted to play with the boys.

A short film about the people who sweep the streets of Johannesburg every night.

The Basotho live in Lesotho, a kingdom of high mountains surrounded by South Africa. Afflicted by famine, poverty and AIDS, they carry on making a science out of their witchcraft beliefs.

An itinerant preacher proclaims to people that their god is in the very coffin he is dragging along.

The documentary is based on the Basotho people and how they were being evacuated from their homeland to make space for a dam being built in the area

Three childhood friends have a dream of having water. Going to Maseru is their dream…to have their share of good things that the world has to offer.

Molemo is unemployed and feeling intense pressure from his wife to bring home more money for her and their daughter. He enters into a sexual relationship with a wealthy man in exchange for money, but soon realizes the truth about his own sexuality.

Film about domestic violence

High in the mountains of Lesotho, Mosaku is anxiously awaiting the return of his older brother from an initiation ceremony.