Flora Gomes

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.

The Two Faces of War (2007)

A documentary shot in Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and Portugal that includes a series of interviews and testimonies of people who lived through the period of the anti-colonial war and liberation in Guinea-Bissau. This documentary, directed by Diana Andringa and Flora ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Diana Andringa  •  Flora Gomes
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A documentary shot in Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and Portugal that includes a series of interviews and testimonies of people who lived through the period of the anti-colonial war and liberation in Guinea-Bissau. This documentary, directed by Diana Andringa and Flora ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Diana Andringa  •  Flora Gomes
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My Voice (2002)

Vita, a young and beautiful African woman learns that finding love and happiness need not come at the sacrifice of one's identity.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Flora Gomes
CAST:  Fatou N'Diaye  •  Jean-Christophe Dollé  •  Ângelo Torres  •  Bia Gomes

Vita, a young and beautiful African woman learns that finding love and happiness need not come at the sacrifice of one's identity.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Flora Gomes
CAST:  Fatou N'Diaye  •  Jean-Christophe Dollé  •  Ângelo Torres  •  Bia Gomes

The Children's Republic (2012)

In a war-torn African country, a small group of young people, led by Mão-de-Ferro, a traumatized and violent war child, arrive in a mysterious city where children, abandoned by adults, have created their own utopian republic.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Flora Gomes
CAST:  Danny Glover  •  Peter P. Gudo  •  Hedviges Mamudo  •  Melanie de Vales

In a war-torn African country, a small group of young people, led by Mão-de-Ferro, a traumatized and violent war child, arrive in a mysterious city where children, abandoned by adults, have created their own utopian republic.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Flora Gomes
CAST:  Danny Glover  •  Peter P. Gudo  •  Hedviges Mamudo  •  Melanie de Vales

The Blue Eyes of Yonta (1992)

A beautiful, intelligent and flirtatious young girl, Yonta, is secretly in love with a friend of her parents, Vicente, a hero of the war of independence. Vicente is unaware of her passion as she is of the love of a young man who sends her anonymous love letters.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Flora Gomes
CAST:  Maysa Marta  •  Jacquelina Camara  •  Antonio Simao Mendes  •  Jorge Quintino Biague

A beautiful, intelligent and flirtatious young girl, Yonta, is secretly in love with a friend of her parents, Vicente, a hero of the war of independence. Vicente is unaware of her passion as she is of the love of a young man who sends her anonymous love letters.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Flora Gomes
CAST:  Maysa Marta  •  Jacquelina Camara  •  Antonio Simao Mendes  •  Jorge Quintino Biague

Tree of Blood (1996)

Done in the style of an African folk tale, this film, a collaboration between European and African countries, is said to be among the most elaborate, high tech film in African film. Exquisitely photographed and filled with archetypal figures to create a poetic look ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Flora Gomes
CAST:  Dulcenia Bidjanque  •  Djuco Bodjan  •  Dadu Cisse  •  Edna Evora

Done in the style of an African folk tale, this film, a collaboration between European and African countries, is said to be among the most elaborate, high tech film in African film. Exquisitely photographed and filled with archetypal figures to create a poetic look ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Flora Gomes
CAST:  Dulcenia Bidjanque  •  Djuco Bodjan  •  Dadu Cisse  •  Edna Evora

Those Whom Death Refused (1988)

The story of a woman who searches through the country for her husband, a resistant, while the war for independence is raging. She finds him at last and saves his life. When peace finally arrives, they have to learn how to be together again and start living in a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Flora Gomes
CAST:  Bia Gomes  •  Tunu Eugenio Almada  •  Mamadu Uri Balde  •  Pedro da Silva

The story of a woman who searches through the country for her husband, a resistant, while the war for independence is raging. She finds him at last and saves his life. When peace finally arrives, they have to learn how to be together again and start living in a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Flora Gomes
CAST:  Bia Gomes  •  Tunu Eugenio Almada  •  Mamadu Uri Balde  •  Pedro da Silva

The Return of Amílcar Cabral (1976)

Documentary on the assassinated liberation leader.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Flora Gomes  •  Sana Na N'Hada
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Documentary on the assassinated liberation leader.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Flora Gomes  •  Sana Na N'Hada
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O Torneio Amilcar Cabral (1979)

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DIRECTION:  Flora Gomes  •  Jom Tob Azulay  •  Fernando Cabral
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DIRECTION:  Flora Gomes  •  Jom Tob Azulay  •  Fernando Cabral
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