Reviewers from The Guardian and RogerEbert.com lauded Golshifteh Farahani’s powerful performance and the movie's visceral, high-stakes action scenes.
While the characters are fictional, the film is inspired by the real events of the 2014 Sinjar massacre , where thousands of Yazidi women were captured by ISIS. Many survivors escaped to form combat units—most notably the —to fight back against the extremists. Critical Reception
A French war correspondent (inspired by the real-life Marie Colvin ) who embeds with the unit to document their struggle.
A former lawyer and survivor of ISIS captivity who now leads the "Girls of the Sun," a battalion of women seeking to liberate their hometown and rescue their kidnapped children.
