A FILM FROM A LAND WITH NO CINEMAS
by Kenan Malik
. This short piece on the Lesothan film This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection is part my Observer column, 6 December 2020. There is no cinema in Lesotho. But Lesotho now 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 first of her husband, then of her daughter and, finally, her son, a migrant […]
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