"THE FILM WILL BE AN ORIGINAL ELEMENT OF BLACK ART": ABOUT THE METAPHORICAL ENDINGS OF FLORA GOMES'S AFRICAN FILMS
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Abstract
In Brazil and Portugal, there are still few critical and analytical studies on African
cultures, especially about the cinema of Portuguese-speaking countries and African and African
intellectuals and filmmakers, especially when it comes to Guinea-Bissau, although this country
has close relations with Portugal since the fifteenth century, the historical moment of European
navigation and the colonial period; and with Brazil since the seventeenth century, a time of
intense trafficking of enslaved Africans. In this sense, it is hoped to contribute to the widening
of knowledge around Guinea-Bissau, namely through the approach of fiction works by
filmmakers such as Flora Gomes: Those Whom Death Refused (1988), Blue eyes fo Yonta
(1992), Tree of blond (1996), My voice (2002) and Children republic (2012), who in his films
presents reflections on Bissau-Guinean society, history, memories and traditions in no way
stereotyped, especially with regard to the beginning and end of Gomes's fiction films.
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