Mozambique Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

Madala knows that Josefina is a prostitute. Madala knows about Aids: He needs to talk with but is shy. he is really interested, because he believes...

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

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...

In the middle of Mozambique truckers stop for the night at a small village where local girls are waiting for customers.

In a village from Mozambique folk tales, Nwavu, and old blind man, is running out of time to leave a descendent. With the aid of the venerable...

Documentary on the struggle against the Portuguese colonial regime in Mozambique, focusing on the organization of civilian life in the liberated...

A digital diary. Filmed in Mozambique between September and December 2024. Amidst revolutionary mood, during work, on sleepy beaches. Surrounded by...

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

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

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...

Moving, narrative documentary depicting the effects of AIDS on four young girls' lives.