Movies: Best Movies from Lesotho

Lesotho ( lih-SOO-too, Sotho pronunciation: [lɪˈsʊːtʰʊ]), formally the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. As an enclave of South Africa, with which it shares a 1,106 km border, it is the only sovereign enclave in the world outside of the Italian Peninsula. It is situated in the Maloti Mountains and contains the highest peak in Southern Africa. It has an area of over 30,000 km2 (11,600 sq mi) and has a population of about 2 million. Its capital and largest city is Maseru. The country is also known by the nickname The Mountain Kingdom. The Sotho ethnic group (also known as Basotho), from which the country derives its name, composes 99.7% of the country's current population, making it one of the most ethnically homogenous in the world. Their native language, Sesotho, is the official language along with English. The name Lesotho translates to "land of the Sesotho speakers". Lesotho was formed in 1824 by King Moshoeshoe I. Continuous encroachments by Dutch settlers made the King enter into an agreement with the British Empire to become a protectorate in 1868 and, in 1884, a crown colony. In 1966 it achieved independence, and was subsequently ruled by the Basotho National Party (BNP) for two decades. Constitutional government was restored in 1993 a... ()

Languages used in Lesotho: English | Xhosa | Zulu | Sesotho

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This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection(2020)

2h | Drama

3.8/5 (with 9 votes)

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.

Directed by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese

The Forgotten Kingdom(2013)

1h 41min | Drama, Adventure

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A young man reluctantly embarks on a journey to his ancestral land of Lesotho to bury his estranged father, and finds himself drawn to the mystical beauty and hardships of the people and the land he had forgotten.

Directed by Andrew Mudge

Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You.(2019)

1h 10min | Documentary

2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

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”.

Directed by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese

Mosonngoa(2015)

28min | Drama

In a society riddled by patriarchy, Mosonngoa embarks on an incisive pursuit to save her father's farm. When all her attempts fail, she enters a stick-fighting competition - against all odds.

Directed by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese

Behemoth: Or the Game of God(2016)

13min

1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

An itinerant preacher proclaims to people that their god is in the very coffin he is dragging along.

Directed by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese

Oral History(1983)

56min

A drama adapted from Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer's short story 'Oral History'.

We Are Going Forward(2002)

17min | Documentary

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A short film about four friends: Thabiso was a national boxer; Thabo, known to his friends as Kwasa Kwasa, is a DJ; Bimbo, a true intellectual, is a man of short sentences; and Moalosi an AIDS activist. All four are HIV+. They meet to reflect on their lives, to cry, to reminisce - but also, most importantly, to laugh.

The Lost Cause(2016)

4min | Drama

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 Chip of Glass Ruby(1982)

56min | Drama

In this drama, the Banjee family resides in an area of Johannesburg where Indians are no longer permitted to live. Mr. Bamjee is a vegetable seller and his wife, unlike him, becomes politically involved fighting against the injustices of apartheid. When his wife is arrested and imprisoned, Mr. Bamjee slowly realizes that his wife's concern for others is not a rejection of him.