Girls-of-the-sun
"The film tells about the events in Iraqi Kurdistan that took place between July 3, 2014 and November 13, 2015. On the night of August 3, 2014, terrorists broke into a village in the vicinity of Sinjar. Their goal is the genocide of the Yazidis. Half a million people managed to escape. The rest were killed or captured. Among the Yezidis, Kurdish militias and the official army of Kurdistan has formed a resistance.»
The French film "Les Filles du soleil" ("Girls of the sun") is based on real events. "Girls of the sun" was the name of the Yazidi women's battalion under the command of Xate Shingali, part of the Peshmerga. However, in the film by Eva Hasson, "girls of the sun" is a collective image of female battalions of Kurds and Yazidis who participated in the battles for Sinjar.
In 2015, Eva Husson learned about the mass killings of prisoners in Sinjar (among them many women and children) and wrote a script that in the fall of 2017 she directed the film in Georgia in just 37 days.
In the center of the film are two heroines. One of them, the French journalist Matilda, is inspired by a real person, the American journalist Marie Colvin, a specialist in the Arab world, who lost her left eye on a business trip in 2001 and was killed by an explosion while shooting a report in Syria during the civil war. The other is the commander of the "Girls of the sun" battalion, Bahar, a collective image of a representative of women's battalions.
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