Khosha World Premiere: Indigenous Rights Day at LDNDOCS
World premiere and celebration: Khosha: The New Land
LDNDOCS closes this year with a day dedicated to Indigenous rights, and the world premiere of Khosha: The New Land is the closing film, a RandomGood Films production.
A journey to the past to find the future.
Moved into centralised government villages, eight Khwe set out on a long journey back to Khosha, their ancestral land in north-west Botswana, hoping to live by their traditions again. They find it under pressure from poachers. But their guide, an elder who talks with the animals, makes them a promise: care for the land, and the animals will return. He will not be there to see it.
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The story didn’t end when the cameras stopped. Since filming, the community has formed its own legal entity, Tc’Oca Reserve, and is preparing a lease application for its ancestral land. The work to secure Khosha is happening right now.
“If successful, Khosha would be a landmark for Indigenous land rights in Africa: a community securing and caring for its own ancestral land, and a precedent for others across the continent and the world.” — Gakemotho Satau, Director
Join us for the day (exact times TBA):
To Hold a Mountain (early afternoon) at Curzon Bloomsbury: this year’s Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize winner, about a Montenegrin family defending its mountain home
Welcome reception (3:00–4:30 pm) at Curzon Bloomsbury, for invited guests before the film
The world premiere (4:30 pm), followed by a conversation with the director and film team until about 6:00 pm
The evening celebration (from about 6:30 pm) at Kimpton Fitzroy London, 1–8 Russell Square, London WC1B 5BE, a 6-minute walk from the cinema. A celebration of Indigenous rights, the Khwe community and everyone supporting them, with drinks, music and Indigenous rights representatives, filmmakers and partners from across Europe and Southern Africa.
This is an invitation-only event. Please register so we can add you to the guest list. Registering doesn't guarantee a premiere ticket: we'll offer screening seats according to availability. We'll be in touch to confirm your place, and as soon as theatre tickets go on sale we'll send you the link to buy them.