This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection (2019) + Intro - Whose Land? Whose Lens?

Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s film explores grief, resistance, and the fight to preserve ancestral
land in Lesotho.


Mantoa, an 80-year-old widow is preparing for her own funeral while grappling with the deaths
of her husband and children. Her village faces forced resettlement due to the construction of a
dam, threatening to erase her homeland and ancestral burial grounds. Confronted with this
existential threat, Mantoa finds renewed purpose and becomes a symbol of resistance,
mobilising her community to fight for their land and heritage.


This film will be introduced by Misa Mlambo - a South African creative producer and filmmaker
based in London, working across film campaigns and their own practice as a writer and director.


This screening is curated by Meliza George as part of ‘Whose Land? Whose Lens?’ a season of
works from the global south discussing the protection of land and therefore peoples through the
lens of slow cinema. The season is presented with the National Film and Television’s Film
Studies, Curation and Programming MA.