Ancestral Visions of the Future

Directed by Lemohang Mosese
France
2025
88 mins
After stunning audiences with 2019’s This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese returns with a personal and visually astonishing meditation on home and exile. Berlinale 2025.

With This Is Not a Burial, the Lesotho-born, Berlin-based artist and filmmaker more than established himself as a leading light of the African avant-garde, and a key new voice in independent cinema. “Coming from Lesotho,” reflects Mosese, it’s almost like one has to be delusional to believe that you will make it in cinema.” His work evokes not delusion but dreams: inspired by oral storytelling traditions, Ancestral Visions is a poetic autobiography that spirals and loops. A recurring image of blood-red fabric weaves together memories of war, childhood and encounters with a cast of mythic figures, including a martial artist and puppeteer. The film’s power lies in its sublime visuals, with extraordinary scenes of fire and symbolic rebirth. It’s unlike anything else you’ll see at this year’s Festival.

Limited seats are available for patrons requiring access for wheelchairs, low vision and hearing loop. Please contact our ticketing team directly on 1300 733 733 or tickets@sff.org.au to complete your booking.

Fiercely imaginative … a forthright projection of a long-sidelined Black voice.
Guy Lodge, Variety

Tickets

Wed 11 June 2025, 3pm
Past Event
State Theatre
WheelchairAssisted Listening
Sat 14 June 2025, 1:45pm
Past Event
State Library of NSW
WheelchairAssisted Listening
  • Program Strand
  • Year
    2025
  • Classification
    Unclassified 15+
  • Country
    France, Germany, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Lesotho
  • Language
    In English
  • Director
    Lemohang Mosese
  • Producer
    Marie Balducchi, Lemohang Mosese
  • Cast
    Siphiwe Nzima, Sobo Bernard, Mochesane Kotsoane
  • Screenwriter
    Lemohang Mosese
  • Cinematographer
    Lemohang Mosese, Phillip Leteka
  • Editor
    Andrès Hilarion Madariaga
  • Genre
  • Premiere
    Australian Premiere
  • Company Credits
    World Sales: Paradise City Sales
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