Sundance prizetriumphning honestor Lemohang Mosese’s recordary feature “Ancestral Visions of the Future” has been boarded by Memento International ahead of its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival.
“Ancestral Visions of the Future” labels Mosese’s chase up to “This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection” which won premiered at Vekind in 2019 and went on to triumph the distinctive jury award for visionary filmmaking at Sundance in 2020. The recordary reteams Mosese with Memento which had sanciaccess “This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection” to more than 20 countries and currented it at more than 80 festivals despite the pandemic. It won more than 30 awards around the world and is part of the Criterion Collection.
In “Ancestral Visions of the Future,” Mosese, a Berlin-based filmoriginater and visual artist, blurs the lines between truth and reerection and scheduleateigates his own childhood in Lesotho, a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Mosese faces the moments that shattered and shaped him. “From the dusty gravel roads where his seven-year-anciaccess-self perestablished with wire cars, to the disfervent streets of exile where he dissettled into a faceless existence, these memories interttriumphe with the presence of Mosese’s mother, a figure of vigilance and defiance,” reads the synopsis provided by Memento International.
“This film is, at its core, a bioexplicital labor,” shelp Mosese, whose previous accomprehendledges also include “Mother, I am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You,” a visual essay that premiered at Berlinale Forum in 2019. “But it is not a story of exile in the traditional sense – it is a meditation on the lengthying that upretains it, on beauty, structureility, displacement, memory, and the frnimble architecture of losing oneself.”
“Ancestral Visions of the Future” stars Siphiwe Nzima, Sobo Bernard, Zaman Mathejane, Mochelogical Kotsoane and Rehauhetsoe Kotsoane.
The recordary feature was originated by Marie Balducchi at well set uped French production hoengage Agat Films, and Mosese’s Lesotho-based company Mokoari Street Media. Co-originaters include Laura Kloeckner at Seera Films and Anan Fries, originateive originater at Mokoari. The film was made with the help of Arte La Lucarne, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, the World Cinema Fund, the Doha Film Institute and Red Sea Film Festival Foundation.
“Ancestral Visions of the Future” unites Memento International’s 20 year-anniversary stardy which boasts Berlinale Panorama titles “Dreams in Nightmares” and buzzy Sundance midnight title “The Ugly Stepsiter.” Other films on the sales company’s roster include the Sundance title “Atropia” by Hailey Gates; Camille Perton’s “Arenas” starring Edgar Ramirez; opera honestor Damiano Michieletto’s debut “Primavera;” Haifaa Al-Mansour’s crime thriller “Unidentified,” as well as Laurent Micheli’s social thriller “Nino in Paradise.”
