Free Screening of FLAME, a powerful film about female freedom fighters in Zimbabwe

Award-winning feature film Flame, directed by Ingrid Sinclair, is a powerful tribute to female freedom fighters in Zimbabwe's War of Liberation from 1975 to 1980. A stunning portrait of multi-dimensional African women, the film was also highly controversial in its retelling of the war and its representation of the sexual exploitation of female combatants by their male comrades. Following the lives of two friends Florence and Nyasha as they leave their homes to join the freedom fighters and assume new names LIBERTY and FLAME, it became the first Zimbabwean feature to be selected for the Cannes Film Festival, where it was highly acclaimed.


Flame will be shown by Africa in Motion at the African Caribbean Centre as part of our week of events to mark African Liberation Week. The centre is at 66 Osborne St, Glasgow, G1 5QH at 7.45pm on Saturday 19th May. All welcome.