AFFK meets KunstBewusst: ARTIST IN FOCUS: LEMOHANG JEREMIAH MOSESE. Gespräch mit dem Regisseur Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese

In the organizer's words:

What is it about?

From childhood memories of the streets he played in to encounters with a farmer or a martial artist, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese weaves an intimate narrative that combines childhood, education, exile and observing the world. In doing so, he addresses the violence inherited from the colonial legacy, which continues to have an impact in the present day. ANCESTRAL VISIONS OF THE FUTURE juxtaposes future and ancestral heritage and poetically deconstructs temporal boundaries. In his third feature film, the director creates a personal allegory of uprooting and belonging, through a landscape of his home country - Lesotho.

Who are our guests?

Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese is a filmmaker and artist based in Berlin. His work explores identity and its amorphous quality in relation to time. His visual essay film MOTHER, I AM SUFFOCATING, THIS IS MY LAST FILM ABOUT YOU premiered at the Berlinale Forum in 2019, was selected for the final cut in Venice and won six awards. His second feature film THIS IS NOT A BURIAL, IT'S A RESURRECTION won over 30 awards, including the Jury Award for Visionary Filmmaking at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. His new film premiered at the Berlinale 2025. As a visual artist, Mosese has created installations for various art institutions. He has also been invited as a guest lecturer at Cambridge University, the Dutch Film Academy, the German Film and Television Academy Berlin and the Konrad Wolf Film University in Babelsberg.

Jacqueline Nsiah is a cultural anthropologist, freelance film curator and programmer
programmer with almost two decades of experience in international film festivals. She holds an MA in Visual and Media Anthropology from the Free University of Berlin and a BA in African Studies and Politics from SOAS. She has worked as a guest manager at the Panorama section of the Berlinale, was co-director and curator of the UHURU African Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro and programmed for Film Africa London. She was also program director at the Africa Film Society in Ghana. Nsiah was a member of the Berlinale Forum selection committee for four years, co-curated the special program Fiction Certification and is currently a member of the Berlinale Competition selection committee. She also co-curates the Afrika Film Festival Köln (AFFK) and curates for the streaming platform Cinelogue.

Price information:

Free of charge for members of freunde. Guests pay €4, students €2.