Mozambique Movies

In the bustling streets of Maputo, 80-year-old flower vendor Sitóe moves through traffic, offering brief moments of beauty. One morning, he...

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

In the middle of Mozambique truckers stop for the night at a small village where local girls are waiting for customers.

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

It's a story about impossible love.

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...