My Voice (Nha Fala)
Flora Gomes
drama, musical / 90’ / 2002
A musical comedy about Vita, a young African woman, who is unable to sing because an ancient curse promises all her female family members with certain death if they dare to infringe this wicked spell.
In co-production with SamsaFilm (Luxembourg), Videofilmes (Brazil).-
Venice Film Fest. (IT)
Nomeação Golden LionVenice Film Fest. (IT)
Melhor Filme e Melhor Actor -
Venice Film Fest. (IT)
“Lanterna Mágica”
“Città Di Roma Arco Iris Latino”Caminhos Do Cinema Português (PT)
Jury Prize
Audience Award for Best FilmFESPACO (BF)
Ouagadougou City AwardVues D’afrique Film Festival, Montréal (CA)
First Prize - Intercultural CommunicationAmiens International Film Festival (FR)
“Signis” Award
Amiens City Prize
Ouidah Int. Film Festival (BJ)
Best Screenplay (Python À Tête Noir)
Audience Award (Python Children) -
Venice Film Fest. (IT)
Caminhos Do Cinema Português (PT)
FESPACO (BF)
Festival de Cinema Vues D’afrique, Montréal (CA)
Festival Internacional de Cinema de Amiens (FR)
Fest. Int. Cinema Ouidah (BJ)
Competição Oficial Venice Film Festival (IT)
Competição Oficial - Festival Int. Cinema de Amiens (FR)
Competição Oficial - FESPACO (BF)
Competição Oficial - Journadas Cinematográficas de Cartago (TU)
Competição Oficial - Flanders International Film Festival (BE)
Sessão De Encerramento - 3º Encontros Int. de Cinema (CV)
Sessão de Abertura - Quinz. Cinema Francóf.Centro Wallonie (BR)
Sessão De Encerramento - Festival Int. de Angra do Heroísmo
Sessão De Encerramento - Festival Int. de Films de Fribourg
Sessão De Encerramento Centro Cultural Franco Moçambica
Afrika Film Festival (BE)
International Film Festival San Francisco (US)
Göteborg Film Festival (SE)
Festival Dos 3 Continentes Em Nantes
Anonimoul Film Festival
Cinema Africa Stockholm
11th Kolkata Film Festival
Festival Johannesburg, Johannesburg
3rd Uk Brasilian Film Festival
Festival Des Hamptons
Flanders International Film Festival, Bélgica Selecção Oficial
Festival Tune In
Festival “En Route Vers Le Monde”
Cinamazonia Guyane
Festival Johannesburg, Johannesburg
3rd Uk Brasilian Film Festival
Festival Des Hamptons
Flanders International Film Festival, Bélgica Selecção Oficial
Festival Tune In
Festival “En Route Vers Le Monde”
Cinamazonia Guyane
Rencontres Cinématographiques De Manosque
Festival International du Film D’amour
Pan African Film Festival
Black Movie
American Film Market, Los Angeles
Tribeca Film Festival , New York
Towesent Film Festival
World Film Festival de Bangkok
Festival de Sevilla Cine Y Deporte
Festival Int. De Curtas e Cinema Alternativo
XXIII Rassegna Di Cinema Africano
Walker Art Center
VI Estação Cena Lusófona
Brown University
Festival de Khouribga
Jornadas da Bahia
Portugal Cinemameu, Inhambane
Festival International du Film D’amour
Exibição de Filmes Portugueses Em Kiel, Hamburgo
Mostra de Cinema Africano no Centro Cultural
Mostra de Cinema Africa em Barcelona
Jornadas de Cinema Europeu Em Tunis
Fest. de Cinema de Países de Língua Portuguesa Cineport
Festival Internacional do Filme de Quartier, Dakar
Ciclo de Cine Africano de Las Islas Canarias
Festival Iberoamericano de Cinema Brasília
Festival Monsaraz Museu Aberto
Africa In Motion Mini Film Festival
Ciclo de Cinema Português na Suiça: Genebra, Lausanne e Sion
Ciclo De Cine Africano
Festival De Cinema Lusófono
Festival Internacional De Cinema De Tallinn
Int. Images Film Festival for Women
Filmes ao Sábado na Voz do Operário
Rencontres Cinématographiques De Manosque
Abertura Da Fespaco No Forum Des Images Em Paris
PRODUCTION CREDITS
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PRODUCTION CREDITS 〰️
DIRECTION
Véronique Sacrez
Rosário Moreira, Virginia Vogwill
Dominique Pâris
Manu Dibango
WITH
Fatou N'Diaye, Jean-Christophe Dollé, Ângelo Torres, Bia Gomes
SCRIPT
PHOTOGRAPHY
EDITING
MUSIC
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Luís Galvão Teles
Flora Gomes, Franck Moisnard
COSTUME DESIGN
PRODUCTION
Flora Gomes
Edgar Moura
Jani Thiltges, Serge Zeitoun
CO-PRODUCTION
Fred Demolder
SOUND EDITING
Pierre Donnadieu
SOUND MIXING
Flora Gomes
Flora Gomes, artistic name of Florentino Gomes, is a filmmaker from Guinea-Bissau, a pioneer of local cinema and one of the most representative African filmmakers. He is known for his original way of drawing African portraits using myth and current history, in a fusion of elements with a delicate poetic charge and a strong universal sense.
His first feature-length fiction film is from 1987: Mortu Nega, a film that invokes the struggle for independence.
He has participated and won awards at festivals such as Venice and Cannes, among others. Given her nationality and the fact that several of her films are co-productions with Portugal, Flora Gomes still occupies a special place in the history of Portuguese cinema.
