Sundance Prizewinner Lemohang Mosese Muses on Exile and Belonging in Berlinale Premiere ‘Ancestral Visions of the Future’

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Christopher Vourlias Sundance prizewinner Lemohang Mosese returns to the Berlin Film Festival with his third feature, “Ancestral Visions of the Future,” which premieres Feb.

20 in the Berlinale Special strand. A deeply autobiographical work, the film is an artful meditation on dislocation and belonging that blurs the lines between reality and reconstruction.

Through fragmented narratives involving a young boy, a market woman and a puppeteer, it explores the director’s childhood in the mountainous Southern African kingdom of Lesotho, as well as the exile that has marked his life as an adult in Berlin.

The film finds Mosese returning to a country he explored with the elegiac docufiction “Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You,” a Berlinale Forum premiere in 2019, and again in his arresting sophomore feature, “This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection,” which won a special jury prize at Sundance in 2020.