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Girls of the Sun (French: Les filles du soleil) is a 2018 French war drama film directed by Eva Husson.
Apr 19, 2019 · By Nadja Sayej. April 19, 2019, 10:51am. When it comes to media portrayals of the soldiers fighting ISIS, rarely are female soldiers included. But Girls of the Sun, a film released on April...
Girls of the Sun is the sort of film that raises a number of questions both about the nature of feminist cinema and our expectations of it. Eva Husson’s sophomore film focuses on a military unit of battle-hardened Kurdish women who seek retribution and freedom for Kurdistan against Islamic extremists. The women are ex-captives and mostly ...
May 12, 2018 · General. ‘Girls of the Sun’ Review: All-Woman War Movie Has Better Suspense Than Story. Director Eva Husson shows she's ready for Hollywood with the first-rate action and suspense of this...
May 14, 2018 · This band-of-sisters frontline war drama from French filmmaker Eva Husson (‘Bang Gang: A Modern Love Story’) honours the cause and bravery of female Kurds from the Yazidi people in northern ...
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As the Daesh forces carried out the genocide, some 5000 Yazidis were killed, around 500,000 fled and thousands of women and girls were captured and forced into sexual slavery. This is a story of some handful of the Yazidi women fighters who stood upright and fought the ISIS forces.
Sep 25, 2018 · The movie flattens the various political and ethnic groups, which has drawn a bit of criticism out of Canne), and Girls of the Sun combines a lot of the journalism and accounts to present a sort of coherent picture of one unit. It follows the audience “in,” French war correspondent Mathilde (Emmanuelle Bercot) as she is embedded in a unit made up specifically of escaped or rescued Yazidi ...
