North American Premiere
Following his internationally acclaimed This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection (2019), filmmaker and visual artist Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese returns with Ancestral Visions of the Future — a deeply personal cinematic essay that weaves myth, memory, and autobiography into a poetic meditation on loss and longing. Fragmented and dreamlike, the film introduces two mythical figures: the Puppeteer, who cultivates herbs to extend life; and the Market Seller, a mother who preserves the language of dreams in a city that has forgotten how to speak it.
Alongside these poetic threads, Mosese retraces his own path from his childhood in Lesotho to the isolating streets of Berlin, with his mother’s presence anchoring the film as both guardian and witness. Ancestral Visions of the Future resists linear storytelling in favour of sensory intuition, ancestral echoes, and emotional excavation. What emerges is less of a narrative than a reckoning — an offering of remembrance, resistance, and cinematic defiance.
Presented by
Community Partner
Siphiwe Nzima, Sobo Bernard, Mochesane Kotsoane, Rehauhetsoe Kotsoane
France/Lesotho/Germany/
Qatar/Saudi Arabia
2025
English
Book Tickets
Credits & Director
Executive Producer
Marie Balducchi
Producer
Marie Balducchi, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
Screenwriter
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
Cinematography
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Phillip Leteka
Editor
Andrès Hilarion Madariaga
Original Music
Diego Noguera
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese is a self-taught filmmaker and visual artist from Lesotho and based in Berlin. His film Mother, I am Suffocating. This is My Last Film About You was selected for Final Cut in Venice in 2018, where it won six awards, and he was one of three filmmakers selected for Biennale College Cinema for his feature film This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection, which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in 2019. Mosese is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talents (2011), Focus Features Africa First (2012), Realness African Screenwriting Residency (2017), and Cinefondation’s L’Atelier (2019).
Filmography: Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You (2019); This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection (2019)
Missing VIFF? Check out what's playing at the VIFF Centre
Miroirs No. 3
Following a car crash that kills her boyfriend, piano student Laura is physically unhurt but emotionally distraught. A local woman takes her in, but she gradually realizes she's in the midst of an eerie, mysterious family situation.
Image: © Schramm Film A4 Kopie
The Things You Kill
Thirty-something professor Ali leads an apparently stable life. But when his ailing mother dies under ambiguous circumstances, he starts to unravel, resulting in an act that shatters our understanding of his person.
