Mozambique Movies

  • 2024
    The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder

    The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder

    The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder

    02024HD

    A hypnotic film debut from Mozambique, where a young director visits his grandmother's village to measure the depths of her memories. Each moment is s...

    The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder
  • 2024
    Maputo: Ethnography of a Divided City

    Maputo: Ethnography of a Divided City

    Maputo: Ethnography of a Divided City

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    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 ther...

    Maputo: Ethnography of a Divided City
  • 2016
    The Train of Salt and Sugar

    The Train of Salt and Sugar

    The Train of Salt and Sugar

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    In 1989, Mozambique is a country ruined by civil war. The train that connects Nampula to Malawi is the only hope for people willing to risk their live...

    The Train of Salt and Sugar
  • 1984
    Os Comprometidos - Actas de um processo de descolonização

    Os Comprometidos - Actas de um processo de descolonização

    Os Comprometidos - Actas de um processo de descolonização

    01984HD

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

    Os Comprometidos - Actas de um processo de descolonização
  • 1982
    Mueda, Memory and Massacre

    Mueda, Memory and Massacre

    Mueda, Memory and Massacre

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    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 killi...

    Mueda, Memory and Massacre
  • 1982
    Sing My Brother, Help Me to Sing

    Sing My Brother, Help Me to Sing

    Sing My Brother, Help Me to Sing

    01982HD

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

    Sing My Brother, Help Me to Sing
  • 2022
    Domy + Ailucha: Ket Stuff!

    Domy + Ailucha: Ket Stuff!

    Domy + Ailucha: Ket Stuff!

    02022HD

    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 fi...

    Domy + Ailucha: Ket Stuff!
  • 2017
    Gold Fever

    Gold Fever

    Gold Fever

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

    Gold Fever
  • 2019
    Kalunga

    Kalunga

    Kalunga

    02019HD

    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 Africa...

    Kalunga
  • 2024
    Aspects of Makuwa's and Makonde's Life in Mozambique

    Aspects of Makuwa's and Makonde's Life in Mozambique

    Aspects of Makuwa's and Makonde's Life in Mozambique

    02024HD

    Ethnographic film

    Aspects of Makuwa's and Makonde's Life in Mozambique
  • 1978
    Plantar nas Estrelas

    Plantar nas Estrelas

    Plantar nas Estrelas

    01978HD

    Plantar nas Estrelas
  • 1959
    Satanskoraal

    Satanskoraal

    Satanskoraal

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    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 coas...

    Satanskoraal
  • 1988
    The Devil’s Harvest

    The Devil’s Harvest

    The Devil’s Harvest

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    “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 no [film] exp...

    The Devil’s Harvest
  • 1987
    The Wind Blows from the North

    The Wind Blows from the North

    The Wind Blows from the North

    01987HD

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

    The Wind Blows from the North
  • 2021
    Nhinguitimo

    Nhinguitimo

    Nhinguitimo

    02021HD

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

    Nhinguitimo
  • 2022
    Black to USSR

    Black to USSR

    Black to USSR

    02022HD

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

    Black to USSR
  • 2021
    Making Rain

    Making Rain

    Making Rain

    02021HD

    The Vumba Hills in central Mozambique, close to the Zimbabwe border, are the kingdom of Mambo (Chief) Chirara. The Mambo’s leading position is acknowl...

    Making Rain
  • 2009
    If Vagina Had Teeth: The Shona Rainmaking Ceremony in Western Mozambique

    If Vagina Had Teeth: The Shona Rainmaking Ceremony in Western Mozambique

    If Vagina Had Teeth: The Shona Rainmaking Ceremony in Western Mozambique

    02009HD

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

    If Vagina Had Teeth: The Shona Rainmaking Ceremony in Western Mozambique
  • 1999
    Muhipiti Alima

    Muhipiti Alima

    Muhipiti Alima

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    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 Mapu...

    Muhipiti Alima
  • 2024
    Karingana - Os mortos não contam estórias

    Karingana - Os mortos não contam estórias

    Karingana - Os mortos não contam estórias

    02024HD

    A poetic movie about the Civil War in Mozambique.

    Karingana - Os mortos não contam estórias