Mortu Nega (Those Whom Death Refused, Flora Gomes, 1988)
Flora Gomes’s debut feature depicts the guerrilla war that brought independence to Guinea-Bissau from Portuguese colonial rule.
Film/Video Theater
Mortu Nega is a gripping account of the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence, a guerrilla war in the 1970s that led to the end of Portugal’s decades-long colonial grip on Guinea-Bissau. Diminga (Bia Gomes) is a guerrilla fighter who joins the conflict to be closer to her husband. Gomes captures the intensity of guerrilla warfare and the harrowing lives of the soldiers fighting for their independence while also raising questions about the future of the country once the war ends. In Creole and Portuguese with English subtitles. (96 mins., 4K DCP)
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