Inspired by true stories of international volunteers who joined Kurdish women warriors in the war against ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
It is a war film with a female sensibility, it focuses on a young woman, Zara, Yazidi (a Kurdish ethnic-religious community whose members practice an ancient syncretic religion, Yazidism and reject Islam) who, after an attack on her village by Isis, is taken by them sold into slavery and raped. In the attack they kill their father, take their mother, brother and an uncle who survives a shooting and rescues Zara's mother.
With the help of her uncle, she also manages to escape and decides to enlist as international volunteers trying to save her brother and take revenge on the men who caused her so much harm.
A solid script that explores the political situation and the various motivations of the guerrillas womans. Well done, dramatic but very realistic and without melodramatic excesses, in a cinematographic universe mostly dominated by men, with honorable exceptions such as Kathryn Bigelow, it gives us a more feminine and I would say more human vision of war, with the vile violence inherent to a war evidently present thought.
I highly recommend.
It is a war film with a female sensibility, it focuses on a young woman, Zara, Yazidi (a Kurdish ethnic-religious community whose members practice an ancient syncretic religion, Yazidism and reject Islam) who, after an attack on her village by Isis, is taken by them sold into slavery and raped. In the attack they kill their father, take their mother, brother and an uncle who survives a shooting and rescues Zara's mother.
With the help of her uncle, she also manages to escape and decides to enlist as international volunteers trying to save her brother and take revenge on the men who caused her so much harm.
A solid script that explores the political situation and the various motivations of the guerrillas womans. Well done, dramatic but very realistic and without melodramatic excesses, in a cinematographic universe mostly dominated by men, with honorable exceptions such as Kathryn Bigelow, it gives us a more feminine and I would say more human vision of war, with the vile violence inherent to a war evidently present thought.
I highly recommend.