Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You
Carte blanche – Jihan El Tahri
The wastelands and crowded streets of an African country are traversed by a woman bearing a wooden cross on her back. A symbolic social-political voyage of a society, spiraling between religion, identity and collective memory.
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese is a visual artist originally from Lesotho, he came to cinema as a self-taught artist and now lives in Berlin. Mother, I am Suffocating. This is My Last Film About You was selected in 2018 for the Final Cut in Venice, where it won six awards. It had its world premiere at the 2019 Berlin Forum. Mosese was one of three filmmakers selected to join the Biennale’s Film University. In 2019, his film This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival and was released in French theaters in 2021.
Mokoari Street, Day Zero Film
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
Guy James Cohen
Mashabushabu Mosese, Arata Mori
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