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.
director
Teboho Edkins
Cast
Mosaku Lesehlo, Retabile Lesehlo
Editing
Rune Schweitzer
DOP
Samuel Lahu
Production
Teboho Edkins
Script
Teboho Edkins
Sound Design
Tobias Bilz
Festivals
2016
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
2016
FID Marseille - Marseille International Film Festival, 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, Mailand, Italy
2017
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France
Production
- Day Zero Film UG
- Teboho Edkins
Distribution
- Kai Middendorff Galerie
- Kai Middendorff
- Niddastr. 84
- 60329 Frankfurt am Main
Sales
- Kai Middendorff Galerie
- Kai Middendorff
- 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