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Desert Flower

Name: Desert Flower
Director: Sherry Hormann
Genre: Drama
Released: 2009-09-24
Cast: Liya Kebede, Sally Hawkins, Craig Parkinson, Meera Syal, Anthony Mackie

Drama

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 KebedeSally HawkinsCraig ParkinsonMeera SyalAnthony MackieJuliet StevensonTimothy SpallLucrezia PhantaziaSoraya Omar-ScegoAnna HilgedieckMatthew Alexander KaufmanPrashant Prabhakar

Director

Sherry Hormann

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