Inadelso Cossa

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. 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 always the core vehicle of his cinema where the director positions himself on a personal perspective. His first feature-length documentary: A Memory in Three Acts was selected for Locarno Open Doors 2014 and made a world premiere at the festival IDFA - International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The film 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. Inadelso Cossa was invited to participate as a jury in several festivals such IDFA 2018, Doc Sheffield 2018 and documentary programmer at Durban international film Festival 2023/2024. The Nights Still smell of gunpowder is his second feature film and was selected for Berlinale Doc station 2019, Atlas workshop Marrakesh 2019, where he won the first prize, Sorfund Pithing Forum 2020, La Fabric Du Cinema du monde Cannes 2020, and Final cut in Venise 2021. And supported by IDFA Bertha Fund, Hotdocs, IDFA Bertha Fund Europe, Sorfund Norway, ICA Portugal.