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Initiation

film type documentary film Production Country Germany, South Africa production year 2016 runtime 11'00 colour
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Dolby SR languages Sesotho Subtitles Englisch, Französisch, Deutsch
screening format HDCAM aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Dolby SR languages Sesotho Subtitles Englisch, Französisch, Deutsch

High in the mountains of Lesotho, Mosaku is anxiously awaiting the return of his older brother from an initiation ceremony. The initiates spend 5 months in a remote secrete location. What rituals are performed is known only to those who have taken part. But when the boys return, they are grown men.

Official Trailer: https://vimeo.com/182146364

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director Teboho Edkins Besetzung / Cast Mosaku Lesehlo, Retabile Lesehlo Schnitt / Editing Rune Schweitzer Bildgestaltung / DOP Samuel Lahu Produktion / Production Teboho Edkins Drehbuch / Script Teboho Edkins Tongestaltung / Sound Design Tobias Bilz
Festivals
2016 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
2016 Festival international du documentaire de Marseille, France
2016 Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, Germany
2016 Europäisches Kurzfilmfestival Köln UNLIMITED, Germany
2016 ZINEBI - International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, Spain
2016 CURTA CINEMA - Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, Brazil (Best Film International Competition)
2016 Festival International Signes de Nuit, Paris, France
2016 Milano Film Festival, Italy
2017 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France
Production
  • Day Zero Film UG
  • Teboho Edkins
  • Reichenberger Str. 88
  • 10999 Berlin
Distribution
  • Kai Middendorff Galerie
  • Kai Mindendorff
  • Niddastr. 84
  • 60329 Frankfurt am Main
Sales
  • Kai Middendorff Galerie
  • Kai Mindendorff
  • Niddastr. 84
  • 60329 Frankfurt am Main

Teboho Edkins

Born 1980 in Tennessee, USA;
grew up in Lesotho, southern Africa;
lives and works in Cape Town and Berlin

Filmography
2004 Ask Me I'm Positive
2005 Looking Good
2005 True Love
2006 Gangster Project 1
2008 Kinshasa 2.0
2011 Thato
2011 Gangster Project
2013 Gangster Backstage
2015 Coming of Age
2016 Initiation
2017 I am Sheriff
2020 Days of Cannibalism