Desert Flower

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.

• Sherry HormannDirector

• Liya KebedeWaris Dirie
• Sally HawkinsMarylin
• Craig ParkinsonNeil
• Meera SyalPushpa Patel
• Anthony MackieHarold Jackson
• Juliet StevensonLucinda
• Timothy SpallTerry Donaldson
• Lucrezia PhantaziaGirl in Boardinghouse
• Soraya Omar-ScegoYoung Waris
• Anna HilgedieckGirl in Shower
• Matthew Alexander KaufmanFastfood Manager
• Prashant PrabhakarKami