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The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder

In this mesmerising and hypnotic film set in Mozambique, a young director embarks on a journey to his grandmother's village, seeking to unveil and preserve his grandmother's fading memories of the long and violent civil war.
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Original title: As Noites Ainda Cheiram a Pólvora Year of Production: 2024 Duration: 93 min Country of Production: Mozambique, Germany, France, Portugal, Netherlands, Norway Languages: Tsonga, Portuguese Subtitles: English Director: Inadelso Cossa Cinematographer: Inadelso Cossa Editor: Tomás Baltazar, Inadelso Cossa Sound Design: Taco Drijfhout Producer: Thomas Kaske, Emilie Dudognon, Inadelso Cossa

Filmmaker Inadelso Cossa visits his grandmother’s village in Mozambique. Victims, perpetrators, former rebel fighters and surviving civilians live here. The grandmother survived the cruel civil war that cost nearly a million lives but now struggles to preserve her memories. Through the medium of nightmares, sounds, absent images and a child’s black-and-white photo in dry foliage, the film – slowly and in fragments – explores the memory of the civil war in Mozambique, which lasted from 1977 to 1992.

In collaboration with Film fra Sør and Co produced by Elisa Fernanda Pirir (Stær AS)

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Inadelso Cossa

Mozambique
Inadelso Cossa is a film director, producer and DOP, member of the (AMPAS) Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science since 2020. Founder of 16mmFILMES; a production company focused on creative documentary and feature films.

Inadelso Cossa is a Mozambican filmmaker and founder of 16mmFILMES, an independent film company. His work examines Mozambique’s history from a personal perspective, covering colonial, post-colonial, independence, and post-civil war periods. His debut documentary, A Memory in Three Acts, explores the struggle for independence and won the Special Jury Award at the Zanzibar International Film Festival in 2018. Cossa is currently working on his first fiction film, Karingana – The Dead Tell No Tales, and a documentary titled The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder. The latter, focusing on his childhood memories of the Civil War, has been supported by the IDFA Bertha Fund and received a development grant from the Atlas Workshops.

Filmography

The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder (As Noites Ainda Cheiram a Pólvora) (2023)
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A Memory in Three Acts (Uma Memória em Três Actos) (2016)
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