Focus on Lemohang Mosese

Lemohang Mosese is a filmmaker from Lesotho who now lives in Berlin. His work has been shown at festivals and in museums around the world. It explores themes such as home, loss and survival, offering both sensory experiences and intellectual challenges. For Mosese, filmmaking is a form of dialogue – with his country, his ancestors and himself. With MOTHER, I AM SUFFOCATING. THIS IS MY LAST FILM ABOUT YOU and THIS IS NOT A BURIAL, IT’S A RESURRECTION, he has become a defining voice on the international festival scene. Whilst one film tells of leaving, of exile and distance, the other deals with staying, with remaining in a place that provides a sense of identity. ANCESTRAL VISIONS OF THE FUTURE moves between these poles – in an in-between space where memory, time and belonging merge. Together, the films trace a movement: leaving, staying, existing in between. Mosese, often described as self-taught, regards cinema itself as his teacher: a process of learning through seeing, hearing, experimenting and failing. Inspired by Djibril Diop Mambéty’s idea of ‘seeing with the ears and hearing with the eyes’, he conceives of film as rhythm and experience – something that is felt before it can be understood. The central figure in his work is often the mother – both as a person and as a metaphor for homeland, memory and origin. Mosese does not see himself as a representative of his country, but as someone who is trying to understand his own relationship with it. His films strike a remarkable chord across cultural boundaries. Whether as a reflection on exile, a form of remembrance or a spiritual experience – at their heart lie universal questions of belonging, faith and survival. Cinema also emerges as a collective ritual: a space in which people watch, feel and listen to one another together.

The full interview with Lemohang Mosese is available here.