Coming Soon
Event Calendar
| M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pygmalion
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (12A)
Back to Black (15)
The Lavender Hill Mob (U)
Io Capitano (15)
Event Search
- This event has passed.
Girls of the Sun (15)
8th March 2019 8:00 pm
Event Navigation
BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL PREVIEW
Director: Eva Husson
Starring: Golshifteh Farahani, Emmanuelle Bercot, Zübeyde Bulut
France/Belgium/Georgia/Switzerland, 2018
In her second feature, French writer-director Eva Husson shifts the experience of war on the front line to a female perspective.
Committed war correspondent Mathilde travels into the Daesh battleground of Iraqi Kurdistan, where she is embedded with a unit of female peshmerga fighters. Led by ex-lawyer Bahar, the unit is made up of women whose children were abducted and husbands massacred by ISIS, who held them captive as sex slaves.
Weaving between their harrowing pasts and a perilous present, Husson highlights the shared suffering that strengthens their bond, and their will to fight to get their village and their families back. She consistently chooses to highlight the camaraderie shared by the female fighters over the violence they inflict; her characters are soldiers, but they are women, and people, first.
Cert: 15
Running time: 1hr 55mins
Language: French with English subtitles
