Mozambique Movies

Mozambique gained independence from Portugal in 1975, following a bloody struggle that lasted more than a decade. In three acts (plus a poetic...

The film consists of three short documentary films that show the faces and give voices to children orphaned by AIDS. The intentions of the...

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...

Erica, a 19-year-old girl, lives a seemingly perfect life with her parents in a luxurious area. However, everything changes when a group of robbers...

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...

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

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

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...

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

From a place far from home, Lara is driven by enigmatic dreams to fulfill a spiritual birth ritual that will take her and her dead aunt back to...

Ethnographic film

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

“Black to USSR” opens a multi-episode epic about the dialogue between Africa and Russia. The project was launched in january 2022. it...

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...

Anifa survives a kidnap. Isa grows old surrounded by fear. In the heart of Maputo in Mozambique, this two sisters face together a place where the...

Regarding the generation that took the reins of governance in the early years of Mozambique's independence, sacrificing their academic careers.