Girls of the Sun

Girls of the Sun (French: Les filles du soleil) is a 2018 French war drama film directed by Eva Husson. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.^[3][1]

Girls of the Sun
Film poster
Directed by	Eva Husson
Written by	Eva Husson
Starring	Golshifteh Farahani
Release date	12 May 2018 (2018-05-12) (Cannes)
Country	France
Languages	Kurdish French Arabic English[1]
Box office	$19,712[2]

Cast

• Golshifteh Farahani as Bahar
• Emmanuelle Bercot as Mathilde, inspired by Marie Colvin^[4]
• Erol Afşin (de) as Tiresh
• Evin Ahmad
• Behi Djanati Atai as Dahlia

Reception

The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.^[3][1] On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 46%, based on 50 reviews, and an average rating of 5.8/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Girls of the Sun has the best of intentions, but this worthy - and thoroughly timely - story is fatally undermined by its clumsily overbearing execution."^[5] Agnès Poirier noted that the film initially received "high praise at Cannes" but later "an overwhelming majority of we critics found the film appalling: dreadfully written, poorly directed, verging on obscenity for treating tragedy with Valkyrie-like music and aestheticised images".^[6]

See also

• The Kerala Story
• Caliphate (TV series)