Flora Gomes
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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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Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1988 | Those Whom Death Refused | Head of Sector |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2012 | The Children's Republic | Director, Screenplay |
| 2007 | The Two Faces of War | Director |
| 2002 | My Voice | Director, Writer |
| 1996 | Tree of Blood | Director, Writer |
| 1992 | The Blue Eyes of Yonta | Director, Writer |
| 1988 | Those Whom Death Refused | Director, Writer |
| 1979 | O Torneio Amilcar Cabral | Director |
| 1978 | Reconstrução, Educação | Director |
| 1976 | The Return of Amílcar Cabral | Director |
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