1169 This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection

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This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection



With a poet's eye for place, light, and the spiritual dimensions of everyday existence, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese crafts a meditation on the concept of homeland and a transcendent elegy for what is lost in the name of progress. Grieving and alone following the deaths of her husband and children, elderly Mantoa (Mary Twala Mhlongo, in a soul-shaking end-of-life performance) prepares for her own death and to be buried alongside her ancestors. When plans for a new dam near her village in the landlocked kingdom of Lesotho threaten to literally wash away all she holds dear, Mantoa takes a last stand, mobilizing her neighbors to fight for their land and their way of life. The experience of watching Mosese's visionary, much-lauded This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection is as timeless and elemental as the land itself.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• 2K digital master, approved by director Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• New audio commentary featuring Mosese and producer Cait Pansegrouw
• Mosese's short films Mosonngoa (2014) and Behemoth: Or the Game of God (2016), along with his 2019 essay film Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You., with a new introduction by Mosese
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by novelist and playwright Zakes Mda

[goblinfootballs]

Hoping this winds up including some if not all of his earlier films, especially Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You.

Edit: it does!

[aox]

This is a quiet and beautiful film. She gives one hell of a performance. It's good to see African continent cinema (Lesotho specifically doesn't have many to offer) entering the collection for American audiences.

[CSM126]

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[colinr0380]

Interesting to note from the back cover of this that this is a collaboration with the Dekanalog label, one of the Vinegar Syndrome partner labels.