Flora Gomes daraktar fim ce ta Bissau-Guinea . An haife ta a Cadique, Guinea-Bissau a ranar 31 ga Disamba 1949 kuma bayan makarantar sakandare a Cuba, ta yanke shawarar karatun fim a Instituto Cubano del Arte y la Industria Cinematográficos a Havana . Shot shekaru goma sha huɗu bayan samun 'yanci, Gomes's Mortu Nega ( Aka ƙi Mutuwa ) (1988) shi ne fim ɗin almara na farko kuma fim ɗin fasali na biyu da aka taɓa yi a Guinea-Bissau. (Fim ɗin farko mai fasali shi ne N'tturudu, wanda darekta Umban u'Kest ya yi a 1987. ) A FESPACO 1989, fim din ya sami babbar kyauta ta Oumarou Ganda. Mortu Nega yana cikin Creole tare da fassarar Turanci. A shekarar 1992, Gomes directed Udju Azul di Yonta, wadda aka yi kariya a cikin Un Wasu game sashe a 1992 Cannes Film Festival . Dan jahilci iyaye, kamar yadda wani yaro Gomes kokawa kan gazawar da zamantakewa da matsayi da kuma zalunci na Portuguese mulkin mallaka tsarin karkashin Antonio Salazar 's mulki. Ta goyi bayan gwagwarmayar Bissau-Guinea don adawa da mulkin mallaka kuma ta yaba da Amílcar Cabral .