This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection: dir Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese (2019)

Much-awarded poetic and emotional feature from Lesotho, a vivid, beautifully crafted reflection on identity, community and the tension between respecting age-old traditions and accepting the seemingly unstoppable march of progress. When her village is threatened with forced resettlement due to the construction of a reservoir, an 80-year-old widow finds a new will to live and ignites the spirit of resilience within her community; her grief becomes the catalyst for a community’s growing defiance in a mesmerising fictional debut by writer/director Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese.

Shows with Happy Times (dir Khalil Agboola, 2024: 15 mins) as part of a programme of Friday-evening films selected by Ose Ekore to support Efie Gallery’s current group exhibition time heals, just not quick enough (runs to 30 July).