Desert Flower
Directors
Sherry Hormann
Actors
- Soraya Omar-Scego
- Idriss Abdillahi Houfaneh
- Awa Saïd Darar
Credits: 2
Summary
Waris Dirie, born 1965 in Somalia, flees at thirteen when sold to be a mans fourth wife. She works as a maid at the Somalian embassy in London, then in a McDonald's where she's discovered and becomes an international top model.
More about this movie
The autobiography of a Somalian nomad circumcised at 3, 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 (FGM).
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