Flora Gomes
Directing
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.)
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Known for
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- 2012The Children's Republic Director, Screenplay
- 2007The Two Faces of War Director
- 2002My Voice Director, Writer
- 1996Tree of Blood Director, Writer
- 1992The Blue Eyes of Yonta Director, Writer
- 1988Those Whom Death Refused Director, Writer
- 1979O Torneio Amilcar Cabral Director
- 1978Reconstrução, Educação Editor, Director
- 1976The Return of Amílcar Cabral Director