Country:Austria, Mozambique

Director:Ella Raidel

Summary:

Artist Ella Raidel visits slam poets, hip-hop musicians, radio and television shows to offer a look behind the scenes of the popular culture of Maputo, Mozambique.

Country:Mozambique

Director:Licinio Azevedo

Summary:

The history of the small Mozambique island explores the collective imagination and magic of the islanders.

Country:Mozambique

Director:Isabel Noronha

Summary:

 A collection of three short films which are united by giving voice to children orphaned by aids.

Country:Mozambique

Director:Isabel Noronha and Vivian Altman

Summary:

An animated film using claymation telling a tragic tale of motherhood and loss.

Country:Mozambique

Director:Chico Carneiro

Summary:

Seu Didico is an old man who lives on the Amazonian river from the transport of wood on his old boat while bearing witness to the destruction of the rainforest

Country:Mozambique

Director:Dario Fonseca

Summary:

Ermelinda suffers a brutal husband, who is a violent drunk. When she learns that she is pregnant again she decides to leave him but events turn cataclysmic.

Country:Mozambique

Director:Adama Drabo and Ladji Diakibi

Program:African Panorama

Summary:

The film starts with an investigation into the murder of an albino which leads to ritual crime and a tragedy that feeds itself from the barbaric beliefs of another age.

Country:Mozambique

Director:Orlando Mesquita

Program:African Panorama

Summary:

A moving story about violence in a small fishing village in Mozambique in which a young fisherman risks his relationship with his father to save his mother from harm.

Country:Mozambique

Director:Rogerio Marjati

Program:African Panorama

Summary:

The young boy Madda is in love with his beautiful neighbour and finds a unique way of expressing his feelings to her.
Orlando Mesquita, The Storm (Mozambique, 2008, 25 min.)**
A moving story about violence in a small fishing village in Mozambique in which a young fisherman risks his relationship with his father to save his mother from harm.
Adama Drabo and Ladji Diakibi, Fantan Fanga (Mali, 2009, 88 min.)
The film starts with an investigation into the murder of an albino which leads to ritual crime and a tragedy that feeds itself from the barbaric beliefs of another age.

Country:Mozambique

Director:20 min.

Program:Eastern Parallels

Summary:

On the night-time streets of Beira Port in Mozambique, commercial sex workers hold their own informal clinics to protect themselves against HIV. A rich and thought-provoking film by a pioneering Mozambican director.
Mozambican director Gabriel Mondlane was trained as a sound engineer and has worked in the Mozambican film industry as sound engineer, writer, director and camera person. He has been active in the Mozambican film industry since 1978 and has written and directed more than ten documentaries. He is the chair of AMOCINE, the Mozambican Association of Filmmakers.