Mozambique Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

It's a story about impossible love.

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...

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...

A Mozambican delegation asks the Portuguese provincial administrator for independence. He agrees to consider their demands in a public square where a...

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...

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...

Ethnographic film

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

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