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Gender: Male

Place of birth: Cadique, Guinea-Bissau

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Movie Involvements: 14

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Biography

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)[2] 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.

Most Famous Work

The Blue Eyes of Yonta
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The Blue Eyes of Yonta

(1992) Writer
Tree of Blood
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7

Tree of Blood

(1996) Writer
The Children's Republic
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The Children's Republic

(2012) Screenplay
My Voice
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My Voice

(2002) Writer
Those Whom Death Refused
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Those Whom Death Refused

(1988) Writer
The Two Faces of War
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The Two Faces of War

(2007) Director
The Return of Amílcar Cabral
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O Torneio Amilcar Cabral
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O Torneio Amilcar Cabral

(1979) Director

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