1988Winner
Best Performance
Those Whom Death Refused
Flora Gomes
Actor · Director · Writer
Cadique, Guinea-Bissau
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.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2012Nominee
Best Director
The Children's Republic
1996Nominee
Best Director
Tree of Blood
Career Highlights
1992Highlight
Best Director
The Blue Eyes of Yonta
1976Highlight
Best Director
The Return of Amílcar Cabral
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The Children's Republic
The Blue Eyes of Yonta