Movie Info: Desert Flower (2009)

Director: Sherry Hormann

Writer: Cathleen Miller, Sherry Hormann, Waris Dirie, Wüstenblume

Genre: Biography, Drama

Desert Flower follows the life of Waris Dirie from her childhood as a nomad in Somalia to her rise as an international supermodel and UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation (FGM). Sold into marriage at age 13, she escapes her brutal husband and wanders alone across the African desert. Even...