Director
Flora Gomes
Cadique, Guinea-Bissau
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.)
Often works with
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The Children's Republic
Director
2012
The Two Faces of War
Director
2007
My Voice
Director and Writer
2002
Tree of Blood
Director and Writer
1996
The Blue Eyes of Yonta
Director and Writer
1992
Those Whom Death Refused
as Head of Sector and Director and Writer
1988
O Torneio Amilcar Cabral
Director
1979
The Return of Amílcar Cabral
Director
1976