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 focus on creative documentary and feature films. His films address themes such as post-colonial memory, post-Civil War trauma, silent voices and collective amnesia in Mozambique. The unofficial history of his country is almost always the vehicle of his cinema where the director positions himself on a personal perspective. His first feature-length documentary: A Memory in Three Acts made a world premiere at the festival IDFA - International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The film was selected for Durban film Mart 2014, and Locarno Open Doors 2014. Won the Jury Special Award at the Zanzibar Int. Film Festival in 2018 and the Flemish Commission for Unesco at Afrika film Festival Leuven, Belgium 2020.s
 
Inadelso Cossa was invited to participate as a jury in several festivals such IDFA 2018, Doc Sheffield 2018, Golden Tree Int. Documentary film festival 2019, World Press Photo 2020 and documentary programmer at Durban international film Festival 2023. Hot Docs Blue Ice Fund pre-selection committee 2024 and Sheffield Meet market preselection committee 2024. 
His second feature film The Nights Still smell of gunpowder made a world premiere at Berlinale Forum 2024 and international premiere at CPH: DOX 2024, The film won the special jury Prize at Olhar de Cinema – Curitiba International Film Festival 2024, Special mention at Lima Alterna International film festival and Porto post Doc, Jury Prize at Doc Lisboa International film festival 2024 and best documentary at Africa Movie Academy awards.
 
 
 
 Karingana the dead tell no tales - (short experimental) 2020
A Memory in Three Acts - (feature documentary) 2016
A Quiet Memory - (short documentary) 2014
Xilunguine, the Promised land - (Short documentary) 2010
 
 
 
 

Filmography

Karingana the dead tell no tales   (2020)
A Memory in Three Acts (2016)
A Quiet Memory (2014)
Xilunguine, the Promised land (2010)
The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder (2024)