Mozambique Movies

Amid the aftermath of Mozambique’s civil war, I visit my grandmother, confronting fading memories and blurred lines between truth and fiction....

After her daughter's death, Rita returns to the African country of her childhood to investigate the death of Yvone Kane, a former political activist...

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...

Madala knows that Josefina is a prostitute. Madala knows about Aids: He needs to talk with but is shy. he is really interested, because he believes...

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...

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...

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

The use of kidnapped children as fighters was a systematic practice by the South African-backed Renamo army. We follow Julio Bombi’s journey to...

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...

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

“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...

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

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

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...

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.

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