On September 12th, the incredibly powerful Girls of the Sun will be releasing across New Zealand cinemas.
On September 12th, the incredibly powerful Girls of the Sun will be releasing across New Zealand cinemas after appearing in the French Film Festival which took place earlier in the year. Selected for the 2018 Cannes and Toronto film festivals and based on true events surrounding the Yazidi women soldiers, Girls of the Sun is an inspirational war story like no other.
Synopsis
Lawyer-turned-freedom fighter Bahar (Golshifteh Farahani) prepares to liberate her Kurdistan village and free her son taken hostage by extremists. French journalist Mathilde (Emmanuelle Bercot), herself traumatised by the recent death of her husband in Libya, arrives to cover the story of Bahar and her Kurdish army known as ‘Girls of the Sun’. During her time spent embedded within the ranks of this all-female unit of former ISIS captives, Mathilde faces her own inner demons and finds strength through adversity. A marked departure from Eva Husson’s debut, Girls of the Sun is an incendiary and unashamedly emotional film that pays respect to largely unacknowledged Kurdish female warriors who have played a monumental role in the fight against ISIS.
"It's a remarkable film, very powerful, a wonderful screenplay"
Girls of the Sun will be showing in the below cinemas:
Rialto Cinemas, Newmarket, Auckland
Academy Cinemas, Auckland
The Vic Cinema, Devonport, Auckland
ANZAC Theatre, Dargaville - From October 10
Basement Cinema, Rotorua
Tivoli Cinema, Cambridge - From September 19
Starlight Cinema, Taupo
Dome Cinema, Gisborne
Shoreline Cinema, Waikanae - From September 26
Wanganui Embassy, Wanganui
Focal Point Cinema, Feilding
Gecko Theatre, Motueka
The Laboratory, Christchurch - From September 26
Lumiere Cinemas, Christchurch - From October 3
Rialto Cinemas, Dunedin
Dorothy Browns Cinema, Arrowtown - From September 26
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