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Film · 2018

Girls Of The Sun

Original titleLes filles du soleil

Directed by Eva Husson · starring Golshifteh Farahani, Emmanuelle Bercot and Zübeyde Bulut

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Synopsis

Bahar is a lawyer who, in just one night, with other 7.000 women, is kidnapped by a group of extremists. The seven thousand of women were detained as sex slaves and after that they were trained in order to create an exclusive group of female soldiers. Some could scape; other were brought back. A few found the strength to fight. Bahar is the commander of the Daughters of the Sun, this special battalion, and she enlisted full of hope to find her son in some part of the way.

Mathilde is a French journalist who, fascinated by what she is seeing, covers the first three days of the offensive made by the Daughters of the Sun in the city where they were captured from. When the two women come together, all the experiences that Bahar kept hidden from the moment the men in black came into her life come to the surface in different conversations.

Les filles du soleil (Girls of the Sun)' is written and directed by Eva Husson ('Bang Gang (une histoire d'amour moderne)') and starred by Golshifteh Farahani ('La nuit a dévoré le monde', 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales'), Emmanuelle Bercot ('L'heure de la sortie', 'Fête de famille'), Zübeyde Bulut ('Masks', 'Atlas') and Erol Afsin ('My Brother, My Love', 'Homeland'), among others.

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The essentials

Runtime
120 min2 hours
How long is Girls Of The Sun?
2 hours (120 minutes).
Who directed Girls Of The Sun?
Eva Husson.
Who is in Girls Of The Sun?
It stars Golshifteh Farahani, Emmanuelle Bercot, Zübeyde Bulut and Sinama Alievi.
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Cast

Full cast (12)
Director
Eva Husson
Writers
Eva Husson
Producers
Lado Chikhradze, Etienne Comar, Didar Domehri

Videos and trailers

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'Girls of the Sun' Trailer 1:4917 July 2019

Photos and posters

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Reviews

All 4 reviews

What the critics say average 5.0 from 2 outlets

  • 6.0 The Hollywood ReporterJordan Mintzer Husson never lets us forget that this is a story of sisterhood in peril, of women bravely risking their lives ? several of Bahar?s soldiers are killed off over the course of the film ? to rid their… Read
  • 4.0 VarietyHay Weissberg Clearly the director?s positive impressions from her research made her want to create something that would generate popular sympathy for the cause, but writing a glorified TV movie wasn?t the way to… Read
  • ABCOti Rodríguez Marchante A great catalogue of cinematographic blunders. Read

Trivia

All 8 facts

  • Kurdistan trip

    To prepare the film, Eva Husson went to Kurdistan and tried to meet all possible factions on the Kurdish side. The filmmaker did not want to go into contact with extremists because she felt that it was not about her. On the other hand, she went to the front, and to refugee camps, to collect the testimonies of women who had escaped.

  • Violence and the film

    In terms of dealing with violence, two things were a problem for Eva Husson. The first came from the fact that, in the history of cinema, the portrayal of violence against women is often close to voyeurism, sometimes with intense victimization of it.

  • French voices

    The opening and closing voice-overs were added late in post-production only to have French be the main language of the film and thus guarantee financial support from French institutions.

  • Origin of the story

    Eva Husson was interested in this project three years ago, after coming across stories of captive women who escaped and took up arms.

  • Origin of the story

    Eva Husson was interested in this project three years ago, after coming across stories of captive women who escaped and took up arms.

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