Mozambique Movies

Based on a short story by Mia Couto titled "A Fogueira," it tells the story of a man obsessed with building his wife's grave before her death, who...

Helder, a kind hearted evangelical pastor living in the village of Manjacaze, Mozambique . He struggles with his own faith in God as he fails to...

In 1961 the liberation struggles start in Angola against the portuguese colonial power. The African students in Portugal fear for their safety and...

Peter Watkins' global look at the impact of military use of nuclear technology and people's perception of it, as well as a meditation on the inherent...

Mueda was a massacre. The name is that of the village in Northern Mozambique where in 1960 it took place. The Portuguese colonial regime did the...

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 2020, unable to travel, Ico Costa left a small camera with Ailucha and Domy, two young Mozambicans from the city of Inhambane, and asked them to...

Moving, narrative documentary depicting the effects of AIDS on four young girls' lives.

The film deals with the judgment of the so-called "compromised", who integrated the colonial apparatus. At Josina Machel school, in an amphitheater...

In Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, the poverty of the population and wealth of the subsoil remain irreconcilable, taking the lives of hundreds of miners....

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...

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

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 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...

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...

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...

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...