Mozambique

Slam Video Maputo

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Country:Austria, Mozambique

Director:Ella Raidel

Year: 
2010

Duration: 
28

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.


Island of the Spirits

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Country:Mozambique

Director:Licinio Azevedo

Year: 
2009

Duration: 
62

Summary:

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


Trilogy of the New Family

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Country:Mozambique

Director:Isabel Noronha

Year: 
2008

Duration: 
49

Summary:

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


Mother of the Grandchildren

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Country:Mozambique

Director:Isabel Noronha and Vivian Altman

Year: 
2008

Duration: 
7

Summary:

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


Seu Didico: Paraense Velho Macho!

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Country:Mozambique

Director:Chico Carneiro

Year: 
2008

Duration: 
65

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


Mahla

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Country:Mozambique

Director:Dario Fonseca

Year: 
2010

Duration: 
29

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.


Fantan Fanga

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Country:Mozambique

Director:Adama Drabo and Ladji Diakibi

Program:African Panorama

Year: 
2009

Duration: 
88

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.


The Storm

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Country:Mozambique

Director:Orlando Mesquita

Program:African Panorama

Year: 
2008

Duration: 
25

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.


MOZAMBIQUE FOCUS I AND A NEW FILM FROM MALI

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Country:Mozambique

Director:Rogerio Marjati

Program:African Panorama

Year: 
2007

Duration: 
110

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.


Voz Nocturna

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Country:Mozambique

Director:20 min.

Program:Eastern Parallels

Year: 
2007

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.