Person
Flora Gomes
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- From
- 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.
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Those Whom Death Refused
The Blue Eyes of Yonta
The Children's Republic
Tree of Blood
My Voice
The Two Faces of War
The Return of Amílcar Cabral
O Torneio Amilcar Cabral
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