Flora Gomes
- Directing
- Cast
- Place of birth
- Cadique, Guinea-Bissau
- Known for
- Directing · My Voice, The Blue Eyes of Yonta, Those Whom Death Refused, Tree of Blood
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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Filmography
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