Flora Gomes

Flora Gomes

Flora Gomes is a Bissau-Guinean film director. He was born in Cadique, Guinea-Bissau on 31 December 1949 and after high school in Cuba, he decided to study film at the Instituto Cubano del Arte y la Industria Cinematográficos in Havana. Shot fourteen years after independence, Gomes's Mortu Nega (Death Denied) (1988) was the first fiction film and the second feature film ever made in Guinea-Bissau. (The first feature film was N’tturudu, by director Umban u’Kest in 1987.) Description above from the Wikipedia article Flora Gomes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

On screen

  • Those Whom Death Refused

Behind the camera

  • The Children's Republic
  • The Two Faces of War
  • My Voice
  • Tree of Blood
  • The Blue Eyes of Yonta
  • Those Whom Death Refused
  • O Torneio Amilcar Cabral
  • The Return of Amílcar Cabral

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