Nifento Film

NIFENTO: LOVE IN THE MIDST OF MOZAMBIQUE’S WAR OF TERROR

Filmed against the backdrop of an unknown war in Mozambique, NIFENTO documents Heidi Baker's fight to see love win against all odds in the midst of terrorism, chaos, and torture of the innocent. Can love really overcome such darkness?

51 mins / Mozambique

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About the Film

When invaded by radical terrorists who are burning down villages, beheading, and violently murdering civilians, how does the Church in the midst of these tragedies respond? 

Heidi Baker, co-founder of Iris Global, has been living in Mozambique, Africa for over twenty-five years. Since 2017 her home province has been overcome by war. When Heidi’s friends and family shared their concerns for her safety, asking her to consider leaving, Heidi’s response has always been, ”Why should I leave behind the ones I’ve raised and disciplined; those I love? They can’t leave, so why should I?”

Filmed by two missionaries, James and Jessica Brewer, NIFENTO is a film that showcases the grim reality of war and terrorism in northern Mozambique. It features stories from families who are experiencing it firsthand and the response of Iris Global who is working hand in hand with the local church.

Striving to be the hands and feet of Jesus in one of the poorest nations in the world, Heidi and her team have faced cyclones, floods, famines, extreme poverty, and now terrorism. 
The conflict has ravaged the region resulting in over 800,000 people fleeing from their homes and becoming internally displaced.

In the midst of radicals who continue to set villages ablaze, behead civilians, and torture the innocent, the question remains: Can love really overcome such darkness?

NIFENTO (“LOVE” in the Mozambican language Makua.)

About the conflict

Located in East Africa, Mozambique is one of the poorest nations in the world. Over the last two decades, they have endured cyclones, floods, and now terrorism.

Beheadings, murder, rape, and religious persecution are among the horrific acts continuing to plague the region.

  • What began in 2017 as a seemingly random incident of isolated aggression in a town in northern Mozambique has deteriorated into a protracted and increasingly sophisticated campaign of terror.
    It has spread throughout the province of Cabo Delgado and threatens more people every day. Since that day in October 2017, over 800,000 people have fled with little more than their lives and stories of unspeakable evil made manifest.

  • Internally displaced people (IDPs) have not crossed a border to find safety. Unlike refugees, they are on the run at home.

    IDPs stay within their own country and remain under the protection of its government, even if that government is the reason for their displacement. They often move to areas where it is difficult for us to deliver humanitarian assistance and as a result, these people are among the most vulnerable in the world.
    - https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/internally-displaced-people.html

  • For Iris Global’s team of national and international missionaries it seems unimaginable that this could be happening to their family, friends, and neighbors. And yet, moved by compassion, they embrace the people whose faces are etched by grief and bring physical and spiritual relief with food, basic supplies, shelter, clean water, and the transformative love of Jesus.

    The team in Pemba, Mozambique is partnering with the UN and other international relief organizations to assist those who fled their homes and villages. This partnership gives us government-approved access to serve 30,000 displaced people and those in extreme need in the town of Pemba and surrounding villages.

“NIFENTO: LOVE IN THE MIDST OF MOZAMBIQUE’S WAR OF TERROR” a film by BREWER CREATIVE | presented by IRIS GLOBAL
directed and written by JESSICA BREWER | editor JAMES BREWER
produced by JESSICA BREWER AND JAMES BREWER | sound design by JAMES BREWER | featuring HEIDI BAKER AND WILL HART