Directing
Flora Gomes
PT, FR, EN cinema · 9 credits
Birthplace
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.) Description above from the Wikipedia article Flora Gomes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
The Children's Republic
Director, Screenplay
The Two Faces of War
Director
My Voice
Writer, Director
Tree of Blood
Director, Writer
The Blue Eyes of Yonta
Director, Writer
Those Whom Death Refused
as Head of Sector, Writer, Director