Mozambique Movies

Each Malangatana's brushstroke is a new line of a long life story. Odd black and white sketching, full of little people in the middle of animals, or...

A group of friends discuss the possibility of the end of the world from a religious perspective, based on the account of a recently converted wife of...

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...

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

When Amarildo vanishes while fighting during the war in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, rumours of his defection shatter his family. As his brother,...

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

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

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

Ethnographic film

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...

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

A 12-year-old boy leaves his grandmother and goes to work the land with the men. While working, they are disturbed by the voices of intruders. They...

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

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...

Kutchinga is a feature-length documentary that addresses the ritual of widows who are forced to have sex with a relative or someone hired in order to...

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

“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...