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Katarzyna Warnke to receive the FLISAK Award from the President of Toruń at the 23rd edition of the BellaTOFIFEST International Film Festival!
Katarzyna Warnke — a film and theatre actress, film director and screenwriter, an unconventional and rebellious artist — is this year's winner of the oldest award given at the BellaTOFIFEST IFF! More »
Kazik Staszewski to Receive the Golden Angel Award for Artistic Insolence!
At the 23rd BellaTOFIFEST International Film Festival, the Golden Angel for Artistic Insolence will be presented to a bold, outspoken and uncompromising artist who possesses a remarkable ability to capture the mood of his audience and translate it into art. More »
FEMEN, a Belgian courtroom, and childhood in the Amazon rainforest. Meet the Main Competition films of the 23rd BellaTOFIFEST IFF!
We are pleased to announce the twelve titles selected for the ON AIR International Competition for First and Second Feature Films at the 23rd BellaTOFIFEST International Film Festival! More »
Desert Flower
Kwiat pustyni · dir. Sherry Horman
Austria, Germany, United Kingdom 2009, 120’
Trailer
When 13-year old Waris acknowledges that, according to her father’s will, she is supposed to become the fourth wife of a much older man, she decides to run away. Alone she crosses a stony desert alone to get to Mogadishu, where her mother’s family lives. Her relatives send her to work at a Somali embassy in London. After several years, adult Waris is in danger of being deported. With the help of her friend Marilyn, she runs away once again. At the snack bar where she works she is noticed by Terry Donaldson, a famous fashion photographer. From that moment, everything is like in a fairy tale the door to career in the fashion world opens...
| Director: | Sherry Horman |
| Screenplay: | Sherry Horman |
| Music: | Martin Todsharow |
| Cinematography: | Ken Kelsch |
| Editing: | Clara Fabry |
| Cast: | Liya Kebede, Sherry Horman, Craig Parkinson, Meera Syal, Anthony Mackie, Juliet Stevenson |
| Awards: | Nagroda Publiczności / Public Award (MFF w San Sebastián / IFF in San Sebastián 2009) |
