Flora Gomes
2021Shot 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.)
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As Duas Faces da Guerra
Flora Gomes, Diana Andringa
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
Mortu Nega
Flora Gomes
Bia Gomes, Tunu Eugenio Almada
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
Po di sangui
Flora Gomes
Dulcenia Bidjanque, Djuco Bodjan
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
Udju Azul di Yonta
Flora Gomes
Maysa Marta, Jacquelina Camara
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
A República di Mininus
Flora Gomes
Danny Glover, Hedviges Mamudo
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
