Mozambique Movies

Shooting on 16mm film in Mozambique, director Ico Costa explores the textures of human behaviour as he follows young men who wonder what lies beyond...

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...

We all have a dream... Nelson's dream is to learn how to read. He works at a traffic light in Maputo selling car products to people who stop. Every...

It's dawn in the capital of Mozambique. Young people leave the nightclubs and, in the backyards, women start their day. A man runs, a woman arrives...

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

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...

A poetic movie about the Civil War in Mozambique.

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

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