This Is Not A Burial, It's A Resurrection

Starring: Mary Twala Mhlongo

Product Description

With a poet's eye for place, light, and the spiritual dimensions of everyday existence, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese crafts a meditation on the concept of homeland and a transcendent elegy for what is lost in the name of progress. Grieving and alone following the deaths of her husband and children, elderly Mantoa (Mary Twala Mhlongo, in a soul-shaking end-of-life performance) prepares for her own death and to be buried alongside her ancestors. When plans for a new dam near her village in the landlocked kingdom of Lesotho threaten to literally wash away all she holds dear, Mantoa takes a last stand, mobilizing her neighbors to fight for their land and their way of life. The experience of watching Mosese's visionary, much-lauded This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection is as timeless and elemental as the land itself.

• Format: DVD
• UPC: 715515281010
• Release Date: January 1
• Rating: Not Rated
• Publisher: The Criterion Collection
• Starring: Mary Twala Mhlongo
• Runtime: 2 hours, 2 minutes
• Number of Disks: 2
• Other Video Info: DVD; NTSC
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.