The Pan-African Film Caravan Cape Town 2026 series brings its second film to The Labia Theatre on Friday, 29 May 2026 at 18:00. Ancestral Visions of the Future, the debut feature by Lesotho-born, Germany-based filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, runs until 20:00. Entry is R30 per person on Webtickets, with Zeitz MOCAA members admitted free.
Zeitz MOCAA launched the Pan-African Film Caravan as a monthly satellite programme in April 2026, bringing one film to The Labia on the last Friday of every month until November 2026.
The series is curated to take pan-African cinema beyond the museum’s own walls and put it in front of broader Cape Town audiences at an accessible price point.
Seats at The Labia are limited, and booking ahead is recommended.
What to expect
Ancestral Visions of the Future is not conventional cinema. Mosese, who has won prizes at major international festivals including Sundance, works in a register where autobiography, documentary, ethnography and myth are not separate genres but simultaneous modes of knowing.
The film meditates on displacement, belonging and the fraught desire for return, using what Zeitz MOCAA describes as a “dense, mythic visual register” and a narrative structure that deliberately resists resolution.
The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2025 before completing an international festival run. The Pan-African Film Caravan brings it to South African audiences, many of whom will be encountering Mosese’s work for the first time.
His films draw heavily on Lesotho and broader southern African identity, filtered through the experience of living abroad, a tension between home and distance that threads through the entire work.
The Labia is an intimate venue. The atmosphere for this kind of film, arthouse, contemplative, visually dense, suits the space well. If you are going in expecting a fast-moving narrative, this is not that film. If you are going for something that stays with you, it likely is.
Pan-African Film Caravan Cape Town 2026 tickets and venue
Tickets are R30 per person for non-members of Zeitz MOCAA. Members attend free on presentation of a valid membership card. Tickets are available now on Webtickets. The Labia Theatre is at 68 Orange Street, Gardens, Cape Town.
Proceeds from the screening fee are reinvested in full into the BMW Centre for Art Education’s community programmes, funding access for children from under-resourced Cape Town communities.
The next screening in the Pan-African Film Caravan series is on Friday, 26 June 2026 at The Labia, also at 18:00. Zeitz MOCAA has not yet announced the full programme through November 2026.
