Mozambique Movies

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...

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

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...

A poetic movie about the Civil War in Mozambique.

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...

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 w...

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

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

The film consists of three short documentary films that show the faces and give voices to children orphaned by AIDS. The intentions of the documentary...

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