| Mortu Nega | |
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| Directed by | Flora Gomes |
| Screenplay by | Manuel Rambout Barcelos Flora Gomes David Lang |
| Produced by | Instituto Nacional de Cinema da Guiné-Bissau |
| Starring | Bia Gomez Tunu Eugenio Almada Mamadu Uri Balde |
| Cinematography | Dominique Gentil |
| Edited by | Christiane Lack |
| Music by | Djanun Dabo Sidonio Pais Cuaresma |
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Running time | 85' |
| Country | Guinea-Bissau |
| Language | Crioulo |
Mortu Nega (English: Death Denied or Those Whom Death Refused) is a 1988 historic film by Flora Gomes, a director from Guinea-Bissau. Mortu Nega was Gomes' first feature-length film and the first film produced in independent Guinea-Bissau. It was also the first ethnofiction film to show the experiences of the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence, blending contemporary history with mythology. Its world premiere was at the Venice Film Festival on August 29, 1988.[1]
- ^ "Cinema and the Anticolonial Liberation Struggles: Mortu Nega". www.nottinghamcontemporary.org. Retrieved 2022-11-27.