Mozambique Movies

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

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 poetic movie about the Civil War in Mozambique.

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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