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This is not a burial, it's a resurrection [videorecording (DVD)].

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Criterion Collection, 2023.

Criterion collection ; 1169.

9798886070101 :

[videorecording (DVD)].

Director-Approved two-DVD special ed.

2 videodiscs (ca. 122 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 cm.

A South Africa/Italy/US/Lesotho co-production.

In Sesotho with English subtitles.

Director, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese.

Mary Twala Mhlongo, Jerry Mofokeng, Makhaola Ndebele.

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 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 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.

MWT rating: NR.

Social problem films.

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