"This is an enormous achievement, especially considering this is Lemohang's first narrative feature."
Filmed in the remote mountains of Lesotho, it is the first feature-length film to be shot entirely in that country, in Sotho and starring local actors. "The film depicts the journey of 80-year-old widow Mantoa , who leads a resistance movement after her village is met with forced resettlement due to the construction of a reservoir.
Lesotho transfers an estimated 780-million cubic metres of water to South Africa annually - Africa's largest water scheme."When I was a child, we were evicted from our home. Different houses, different schools, different playmates followed."My grandmother's village is on the verge of displacement. I still know every texture of her house's walls.
"Soon this place will be no more. Soon this will be razed and flooded and water will be channelled into South Africa."I am more interested in interrogating the psychological, spiritual and social element that come with it."
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