Born in Cadique, Guinea-Bissau, in 1949, Flora Gomes was one of the first students sent abroad after independence, to study film in Cuba and then in Paris. He is the leading director of his country, with a body of work that is poetic and warm. Mortu Nega (Those Whom Death Refused, 1988) was the first feature from Guinea-Bissau, about a woman waiting for her husband after the war of independence. Po di Sangui (1996) is a story of a village whose tree of life is dying, and Nha Fala (2002) is a musical about a woman cursed never to sing.
Filmography
- Mortu Nega (1988)
- The Blue Eyes of Yonta (1992)
- Po di Sangui (1996)
- Nha Fala (2002)