Flora Gomes

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Place of Birth Cadique, Guinea-Bissau

Flora Gomes

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) 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

Director

2012
2007
2002
My Voice

as Director

1996
Tree of Blood

as Director

1992
1988
1979

Writer

2012
2002
My Voice

as Writer

1996
Tree of Blood

as Writer

Actor

1988
Those Whom Death Refused

as Head of Sector