Flora Gomes

Flora Gomes was born on 31 December 1949 in Cadique, in Portuguese Guinea. He learned filmmaking in Cuba under Santiago Álvarez, then in Senegal under Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, and was an assistant to Chris Marker. He filmed the independence ceremony in 1974, made historical documentaries, then several fiction feature films shown at Cannes and awarded prizes at Fespaco and Carthage. He was made a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2000.

In the catalogue 1

• Feature filmThose Whom Death RefusedMortu NegaFlora Gomes · 1988Cinema