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Desert Flower
Desert Flower
drama, biography
2009
United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Sherry Horman
120 min.
Leah Kebede, Sally Hawkins, Craig Parkinson, Mira of Saial, Soray Omar-Skego, Timothy Upoll, Anthony Maki, Juliet Stevenson, Idriss Abdillah Hufanch, Ava Said Darar
The story of Varis Cinning is a simple nomad girl from Somalia. At 13, she escaped from the family, reached Mogadisho, and then ended up in London. A few years later she managed to become one of the most popular models in the world. Varis was not the first dark-skinned top model, but she became the first woman to publicly condemn the practice of female circumcision, was appointed a special UN ambassador and created the FGM Foundation.
