Flame

Flame is the first film to be set during Zimbabwe’s Independence struggle and one of the few films ever made to focus on women as active fighters in a war situation.

Here the struggle is used as a metaphor for the struggle for personal independence of women. The story begins in 1975 with two young girls, Florence and Nyasha, who secretly decide to join the liberation war.

Florence is hoping to find the charismatic commander, Comrade Danger, and Nyasha to get a scholarship to study. On joining the liberation forces they take on names, Flame and Liberty.

Despite the new found freedom and equality with men brought by political education and military training, their innocence slowly begins to crack as the reality of war seeps in. They are tested to the limit as soldiers, but even more as girls on the difficult journey to womanhood and maturity.

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