Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You
Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese / Feature Documentary / Lesotho, Germany, Qatar / 2019 / 70 min / Original Language: English, Sesotho / Interests: Identity, Arthouse, Experimental
Synopsis
The wastelands and crowded streets of an African country are traversed by a woman bearing a wooden cross on her back. She is followed by sellers, beggars and passersby, outraged voices, pity and curious glances. Parallel to her, among a herd of sheep, a lamb toddles its way from the far away mountains into the heart of the city, only to find itself dangling, skinned and headless, on a butcher’s shoulder. In the meantime, under the scorching sun, in a roofless house, a woman is persistently knitting a garment, unwinding a thread coiled over her son’s face. ‘Mother, I Am Suffocating. This is My Last Film About You’ is a symbolic social-political voyage of a society, spiralling between religion, identity and collective memory. “I saw in you what they saw, mother. You deserve your war”.
Credits
- Director
- Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
- Screenwriter
- Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
- Producer
- Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
- Production Company
- Day Zero Films UG
About the Director
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese is a Lesotho self-taught filmmaker. Two of his short films, 'Mosonngoa' (2014) and 'Behemoth - or the Game of God' (2015), have been screened in numerous international film festivals, including the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Raindance International Film Festival, Kinodot Film Festival, Festival del Cinema Africano, d’Asia e America Latina, as well as the Durban International Film Festival and L’Étrange Festival. Mosese is also an alumnus of the Berlinale Talent Campus (2012), Focus Features Africa First Short Film Program (2012), Realness Screenwriter’s Residency (2017), and Final Cut in Venice workshop (2018).