Flora Gomes

Directing

Flora Gomes

Cadique, Guinea-Bissau

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.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Children's Republic poster
5.8

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.

The Children's Republic

2012

The Children's Republic poster
5.8

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.

The Children's Republic

2012

No artwork available
NR

Documentary about an international meeting of Ministers of Education from Guinea Bissau, Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique and other post-colonial countries.

Reconstrução, Educação

1978

Those Whom Death Refused poster
8.1

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 destroyed land.

Those Whom Death Refused

1988

Those Whom Death Refused poster
8.1

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 destroyed land.

Those Whom Death Refused

1988

Tree of Blood poster
6.6

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 at nature's revenge against those who would exploit her. It is set in the forest village of Amanha Lundju, a place where the birth of children is celebrated by the planting of a tree. The trees are considered spiritual twins. But for every tree planted, the rapacious state destroys many more for firewood and lumber.

Tree of Blood

1996

Tree of Blood poster
6.6

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 at nature's revenge against those who would exploit her. It is set in the forest village of Amanha Lundju, a place where the birth of children is celebrated by the planting of a tree. The trees are considered spiritual twins. But for every tree planted, the rapacious state destroys many more for firewood and lumber.

Tree of Blood

1996

O Torneio Amilcar Cabral poster
5.0

Documentary about Guinea-Bissau, African soccer, and the colonial emancipation movement.

O Torneio Amilcar Cabral

1979

The Blue Eyes of Yonta poster
7.5

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.

The Blue Eyes of Yonta

1992

The Blue Eyes of Yonta poster
7.5

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.

The Blue Eyes of Yonta

1992

The Return of Amílcar Cabral poster
6.5

Documentary on the assassinated liberation leader.

The Return of Amílcar Cabral

1976

My Voice poster
6.6

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

My Voice

2002

My Voice poster
6.6

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

My Voice

2002

The Two Faces of War poster
6.0

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 Gomes, sets the tone for a debate around the themes of reconciliation and historical memory in the post-conflict period of the Portuguese colonial war.

The Two Faces of War

2007