Mozambique Movies

In the early 70s, Camilo de Sousa left Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, travelled Europe, joined the Frelimo guerrilla and became a filmmaker....

In the midst of Mozambique's devastating civil war, Muidinga, an orphaned refugee, wanders the countryside in search of his mother. His only...

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

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...

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...

It's a story about impossible love.

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

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

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's plot revolves around a rich playboy and an expert in coral who helps scientists to discover chunks of coral missing off the Mozambican...

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

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...

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

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

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

A poetic movie about the Civil War in Mozambique.