title: African Lost Classics: Flame
start: 2017-11-02
start time: 18:00
end time: 20:00
venue: Glasgow Women's Library
city: Glasgow
country: GB
coordinates: 55.8488, -4.2277
tags: feminism feminismo feminismus forwomenandbywomen fürundvonfrauen glasgowwomenslibrary
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In 2017 Africa in Motion collaborates with Glasgow Women’s Library to present a selection of African Lost Classics.
Ingrid Sinclair’s 1996 film Flame was the first Zimbabwean film since independence and is a tribute to the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army’s many female guerrillas:
The 1970s in the former Rhodesia, today Zimbabwe: The native people is going against the white suppressors. As the war reaches the most distant villages as well the two friends Florence and Nyasha join the fighters and assume new names: Flame and Liberty. But the war is not as easy as they thought…