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Flora Gomes

Flora Gomes

Director · Cadique, Guinea-Bissau

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Biography

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.

Directed

  1. My Voice (2002) — Director
  2. Those Whom Death Refused (1988) — Director
  3. The Blue Eyes of Yonta (1992) — Director
  4. Tree of Blood (1996) — Director
  5. The Children's Republic (2012) — Director
  6. The Two Faces of War (2007) — Director
  7. The Return of Amílcar Cabral (1976) — Director
  8. O Torneio Amilcar Cabral (1979) — Director
  9. Reconstrução, Educação (1978) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Those Whom Death Refused (1988) — Head of Sector