THE FORGOTTEN KINGDOM

By Andrew MUDGE

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Drama - Completed 2013

A young man reluctantly embarks on a journey to his ancestral land of Lesotho to bury his estranged father, and finds himself drawn to the mystical beauty and hardships of the people and land he had forgotten.

Festivals
& Awards

Woodstock Film Festival 2014
Best Narrative Feature and Cinematography
Cambridge Film Festival 2014
Best Film
African Movie Academy Awards 2014
Best Child Actor
Florida Film Festival 2014
Best Narrative Feature
    • Year of production
    • 2013
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • LESOTHO, SOUTH AFRICA
    • Languages
    • SESOTHO
    • Duration
    • 97 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Andrew MUDGE
    • Writer(s)
    • Andrew MUDGE
    • Producer(s)
    • T.r. BOYCE, JR, Pieter LOMBAARD, Cecil MATLOU
    • Synopsis
    • Atang Mokoenya leaves the slums of Johannesburg to return to his ancestral land of Lesotho, where he must bury his estranged father in the remote, mountainous village where he was born. Stirred by memories of his youth, he falls in love with his childhood friend, Dineo, now a radiant young school teacher. Through her, Atang is drawn toward the mystical beauty and hardships of the people and land he had forgotten, and faces his own bittersweet reckoning.