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