Sesotho wird u.a. in Südafrika und Lesotho gesprochen und 6 Filme (zwischen 2016 und 2020) mit dieser Sprache wurden bislang erfasst. Die meisten dieser Filme wurden in Lesotho (4) gedreht. Besonders beliebte Genres für Sesotho Filme sind Drama (3) und Dokumentation (2). Zu den bekanntesten & erfolgreichsten Filmen zählen Kedibone (2020), The Lost Cause (2016), This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection (2020), Behemoth: Or the Game of God (2016) und Days of Cannibalism (2020).
An itinerant preacher proclaims to people that their god is in the very coffin he is dragging along.
After four years of independence and since his father was captured, a boy finds himself alone in the world filled with pride, wickedness and evil, when his brother leaves for the Liberation Army camp to avenge his father's legacy.
A Western-like documentary set in a remote rural region in Lesotho: a frontier space where the ways of modern society are of little, if any, value. The arrival of economic migrants from China has irrevocably upset the balance of power, as old laws and ancient gods are doddering away. Subtle moments and small gestures reveal the trauma of expatriation, the burden of personal sacrifice, solitude and alienation, as well as the painful experience of otherness. As old structures begin to disintegrate and violence is about to erupt, one rule asserts itself above all others: eat or be eaten.
The wastelands and crowded streets of an African country are traversed by a woman bearing a wooden cross on her back. She is followed by sellers, beggars and passersby, outraged voices, pity and curious glances. Parallel to her, among a herd of sheep, a lamb toddles its way from the far away mountains into the heart of the city, only to find itself dangling, skinned and headless, on a butcher’s shoulder. In the meantime, under the scorching sun, in a roofless house, a woman is persistently knitting a garment, unwinding a thread coiled over her son’s face. ‘Mother, I Am Suffocating. This is My Last Film About You’ is a symbolic social-political voyage of a society, spiralling between religion, identity and collective memory. “I saw in you what they saw, mother. You deserve your war”.
In a small village surrounded by mountains somewhere in Lesotho, the 80-year-old widow Mantoa waits for the return of her only surviving relative: her son, who works in a South African coal mine. It is Christmas and he would come home. Messengers, however, bring the sad news: her son died in a mining accident.
An exotically beautiful Sotho actress, Kedibone Manamela, chooses to live her youth on the fast lane. Veiled from her loyal childhood boyfriend's eyes, she bounces between being a good girl in the township and the 'it' girl on the high end of Johannesburg streets. A dark threat looms over the day when the news of Kedibone's escapades reaches the young man.