Mozambique Movies
- 2017

Searching Nafta
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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...
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- 2024

The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder
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Amid the aftermath of Mozambique’s civil war, I visit my grandmother, confronting fading memories and blurred lines between truth and fiction....
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- 2021

Nhinguitimo
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In the form of a short political fable, Nhinguitimo explores the relations between the dispossession of rural land—and its crops—and the...
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- 2015

Yvone Kane
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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...
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- 2009

If Vagina Had Teeth: The Shona Rainmaking Ceremony in Western Mozambique
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"Ritual reversals" or "rituals of rebellion" are concepts used for mock rituals performed in Southern and Eastern Africa. During fertility rituals,...
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- 2015

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...
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- 2010

Grande Hotel
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Grande Hotel, Beira, Mozambique. In one of the grandest hotels in the world, born of and to luxury, today you enter 'at own risk'. More than 2500...
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- 2026

The Prophet
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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...
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- 2003

Night Stop
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In the middle of Mozambique truckers stop for the night at a small village where local girls are waiting for customers.
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- 2008

Trilogia das Novas Famílias
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The film consists of three short documentary films that show the faces and give voices to children orphaned by AIDS. The intentions of the...
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- 2024

Hidden Era
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Era Oculta – “Hidden Era” unfolds in the vibrant city of Maputo, where Rastafari artist Phambi fights with securing his son’s...
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- 2003

Eclipse
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Moving, narrative documentary depicting the effects of AIDS on four young girls' lives.
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- 1978

Plantar nas Estrelas
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- 1971

Behind the Lines
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Documentary on the struggle against the Portuguese colonial regime in Mozambique, focusing on the organization of civilian life in the liberated...
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- 2007

Sleepwalking Land
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In the midst of Mozambique's devastating civil war, Muidinga, an orphaned refugee, wanders the countryside in search of his mother. His only...
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- 2007

Ngwenya, O Crocodilo
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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...
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- 2025

"Maputo Nakuzandza" Making Of
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Making of the film "Maputo Nakuzandza", by Ariadine Zampaulo.
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- 2024

Nwavu, the Blind Man
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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...
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- 2021

Making Rain
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The Vumba Hills in central Mozambique, close to the Zimbabwe border, are the kingdom of Mambo (Chief) Chirara. The Mambo’s leading position is...
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- 1959

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...
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