Texas premiere presented in partnership with the Houston Cinema Arts Festival
The film will be available to stream from November 13, 4PM CST to November 16, 4PM CST. Pre-order your free tickets at the link below.
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Please note that this film can be viewed across North America.
Join us on Monday, November 16 at 12PM CST for a live virtual Q&A with director Jeremiah Lemohang Mosese and experimental film writer Michael Sicinski. The link to join will be sent to you upon registering for the film.
About the film:
2019 | 76 min | Qatar, Lesotho, Germany
The wastelands and crowded streets of an unknown country in Africa are traversed by a woman bearing a wooden cross on her back. She is followed by sellers, beggars and passerbys, 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.
About the filmmaker:
Jeremiah Lemohang Mosese’s prolific work has been largely inspired by the country he grew up in, Lesotho. His shorts,
Mosonngoa and
Behemoth: Or the Game of God, screened at numerous international festivals to much acclaim, winning several awards on the circuit. His feature film
Mother I Am Suffocating, This Is My Last Film About You was selected for Final Cut in Venice in 2018, and won six awards. It will premiere at the Berlinale Forum 2019. Mosese was one of three filmmakers selected for Biennale Cinema College 2018/19 with his next feature film ‘This Is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection’. He is an alumnus of Berlinale Talents (2011), Focus Features Africa First (2012) and Realness Pan African Screenwriting Residency (2017). Mosese currently resides between Berlin and Lesotho.
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