About
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.)
Filmography
The Children's Republic2012 · Director, Screenplay
The Two Faces of War2007 · Director
My Voice2002 · Director, Writer
Tree of Blood1996 · Director, Writer
The Blue Eyes of Yonta1992 · Director, Writer
Those Whom Death Refused1988 · Director, Writer
O Torneio Amilcar Cabral1979 · Director
Reconstrução, Educação1978 · Editor, Director
The Return of Amílcar Cabral1976 · Director