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This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection

2020

In the mountains of Lesotho, an eighty-year-old widow who has resigned herself to death rediscovers her fierce will to live when her village is threatened with flooding for a new reservoir, and she rises to defend her ancestral land. A stunning, elemental drama.

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Part of 3 Essential Films from Lesotho

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