Flame

Name: Flame
Director: Ingrid Sinclair
Released: 1996-01-01

1996 film directed by Ingrid Sinclair

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Released: 1996
, March 5, 1998
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Director: Ingrid Sinclair
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1.seventh-row.com/a-history-of-women-directors-at-the-cannes-film-festival/
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Screenwriter: Ingrid Sinclair
Producer: Simon Bright
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, Joel Phiri
Genre: drama film
, war film
Country of origin: Zimbabwe
Original language: English
Distributor: California Newsreel

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Flame is a controversial 1996 war film directed by Ingrid Sinclair, produced by Joel Phiri and Simon Bright, written by Ingrid Sinclair, Barbara Jago and Philip Roberts (writer) and stars Marian Kunonga and Ulla Mahaka. It was the first Zimbabwean film, since independence, to be set in the Rhodesian Bush War. It served as a tribute to the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army's many female guerrillas.

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Main subject: Cold War
Title: Flame
Narrative location: Zimbabwe
Set in environment: jungle
CNC film rating (France): no age restriction
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1.cnc.fr/professionnels/visas-et-classification/89122Retrieved 2023-02-03
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Participant in: 1996 Cannes Film Festival part of: Directors' Fortnight
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1.seventh-row.com/a-history-of-women-directors-at-the-cannes-film-festival/
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