Flora Gomes

Birthplace: Cadique, Guinea-Bissau

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.)

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Known For

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

Top Movie Credits

Those Whom Death Refused Writer
The Children's Republic Screenplay
Reconstrução, Educação Director
The Blue Eyes of Yonta Writer
Tree of Blood Writer
The Return of Amílcar Cabral Director
O Torneio Amilcar Cabral Director
The Two Faces of War Director
My Voice Director