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

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

Released Nov 12, 2021

1h 16m

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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, spiraling between religion, identity and collective memory. "I saw in you what they saw, mother. You deserve your war".

Manuel Betancourt

Variety

There is an emotional heartbeat running throughout that's utterly entrancing.

Nov 12, 2021

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Diane Carson

KDHX (St. Louis)

As mesmerizing and haunting as it is, at times, elusive.

Dec 17, 2021

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Benjamin Franz

Film Threat

A singular effort by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese,Mother I Am Suffocating. This is My Last Film About You.will sit in my retinas for quite some time.

Rated: 7/10

Dec 7, 2021

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

...it's a simultaneously beautiful and forbidding objet d'art weaving together a series of docu/fiction line-blurring images...

Nov 16, 2021

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Carla Hay

Culture Mix

[It] takes the unorthodox approach of telling an abstract cinema story of an African expatriate who has a love/hate relationship with Africa ... It's an impactful commentary on how personal history can shape someone's identity.

Nov 13, 2021

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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, spiraling between religion, identity and collective memory. "I saw in you what they saw, mother. You deserve your war".

Director: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
Producer: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
Screenwriter: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
Distributor: Dekanalog
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 12, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 8, 2022
Runtime: 1h 16m

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