The story begins in 1975 in a small village in Rhodesia which was later to become Zimbabwe after eight years of civil war, at the climax of the conflict. The life of two teenagers topples over when the father of one of them is taken prisoner by the Rhodesians. They go to Mozambique and join the guerrilla warfare and take up arms. Life in the camps is tough, but they get used to it. They take on war names such as Flame, Liberty and thereby share the common fight. In addition, "Flame" telles how women fighters paved the wey to self-autonomy throughout the fight. The award-winning feature film Flame is a powerful tribute to female freedom fighters in Zimbabwe\'s War of Liberation (1975-1980) and gives a rare portrait of multi-dimensional African women - stubborn, vain, clever, brave, hopeful and loving. Highly controversial in its retelling of the war, and in particular its representation of the sexual exploitation of female combatants by their male comrades, Robert Mugabe\'s government did all it could to seize and confiscate the film during and after production, which it claimed was \"subversive\" and \"pornographic.\" The film survived, however, and was the first Zimbabwean feature to be selected for Cannes, screened there at high acclaim. Flame tells the story of two young girls, Florence and Nyasha, who join the liberation army hoping for a better future for themselves and their war-torn country. The film tracks the girls' friendship through the war as their innocence is sharply eroded when the reality of war seeps in. The interwoven stories of the two friends are based on the true experiences of female ex-combatants, interviewed over seven years by director Ingrid Sinclair. The resulting film is a strong take on modern womanhood that never loses sight of the complexities of liberation, both political and personal. By Ingrid Sinclair Zimbabwe | 1h28m | 35mm | English | Rating 15 | Fiction