Les filles du soleil

Eva Husson : 2018
Girls of the Sun

Somewhere in Kurdistan, Bahar, commander of the "Girls of the Sun" battalion, is preparing to liberate her hometown from the hands of extremists, hoping to find her son who is held hostage. A French journalist, Mathilde, comes to cover the attack and bear witness to the story of these exceptional warriors. Since their lives have been turned upside down, they have all been fighting for the same cause: Women, Life, Liberty. Les Filles du soleil is the story of Bahar, a Kurdish Yazidi lawyer kidnapped by the men in black. She manages to escape and forms a commando unit of female fighters to recapture their town in Kurdistan. The film highlights the struggle of women against obscurantism and is directly inspired by recent news events; it echoes the experiences of the Kurdish women fighters engaged in conflict with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. With their Kalashnikovs in their hands, they were the face of the struggle which took the West by surprise in 2015. A war film which is purely feminine and feminist, with no testosterone-heavy prejudice in sight. Eva Husson's feature premiered in competition at Festival de Cannes 2018.