

Desert Flower
DirectorSherry Hormann
“The extraordinary true story of the woman who crossed the desert and changed the world.”
The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation.
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Cast

Liya Kebede
Waris Dirie

Sally Hawkins
Marylin

Craig Parkinson
Neil

Meera Syal
Pushpa Patel

Anthony Mackie
Harold Jackson

Juliet Stevenson
Lucinda

Timothy Spall
Terry Donaldson

Lucrezia Phantazia
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Soraya Omar-Scego
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Matthew Alexander Kaufman
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Prashant Prabhakar
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