The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder review – excavating the memories of civil war in Mozambique

Inadelso Cossa’s documentary grapples with the trauma left by the conflict through witness that wavers between real and imagined truths Lasting from 1977 to 1992, the Mozambique civil war left deep scars on the psyche of the whole nation. In his second feature, Inadelso Cossa attempts to grapple with the psychological wreckage of this harrowing period by combing through his own family history; returning to the village where he grew up, the film-maker conducts a series of interviews with his ...

By Phuong Le