Mozambique Movies

“A Colheita do Diabo is my first major film experience (…) in which for the first time, aside from theatre actors, I used people who had...

In 2020, unable to travel, Ico Costa left a small camera with Ailucha and Domy, two young Mozambicans from the city of Inhambane, and asked them to...

Amid the aftermath of Mozambique’s civil war, I visit my grandmother, confronting fading memories and blurred lines between truth and fiction....

A woman barely holding her family together, has to try even harder when her 14 year old daughter tells her she's pregnant and doesn't want her...

The Vumba Hills in central Mozambique, close to the Zimbabwe border, are the kingdom of Mambo (Chief) Chirara. The Mambo’s leading position is...

This film seeks to visualize Maputo in Mozambique as one of Africa's divided cities. One day in the city, through the eyes of the people who live...

Documentary on Mozambican music, and the role it played in the country's rediscovering its national identity after centuries of colonial rule.

Making of the film "Maputo Nakuzandza", by Ariadine Zampaulo.

Armando, a shy and intelligent 20-year-old from a low-income family, is passionate about painting. He studies at an art school in central Maputo and...

This is one of the first incursions of post-independence Mozambican production into feature-length fiction films, and it revisits the last stage of...

In the form of a short political fable, Nhinguitimo explores the relations between the dispossession of rural land—and its crops—and the...

"Ritual reversals" or "rituals of rebellion" are concepts used for mock rituals performed in Southern and Eastern Africa. During fertility rituals,...

Alima wants to go to school, but her husband is against it. This film follows Alima as she finds a way to live, selling candies on the streets of...

The film explores the complexities, repression, and criminalization of social movements fighting for land and ecological restitution in Eswatini...

From a forgotten photo of a group of clandestine Cape-Verdean guerrillas in the mountains of Cuba, Elson, a young filmmaker, searches for the...

Helder, a kind hearted evangelical pastor living in the village of Manjacaze, Mozambique . He struggles with his own faith in God as he fails to...

"Xidzedze" means "Disaster" in Xi-Changana. The term in this dialect refers specifically to "windstorm", but there is no direct translation.

Ethnographic film