13 Sep 2000
A Time for Drunken Horses
After their father dies, a family of five children are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq.
Girls of the Sun
Women. Life. Liberty.
Bahar, the commanding officer of the Daughters of the Sun, a battalion made up entirely of Kurdish female soldiers, is on the cusp of liberating their town, which has been overrun by ISIS extremists.
Top Billed Cast
Golshifteh Farahani Bahar
Emmanuelle Bercot Mathilde
Zübeyde Bulut Lamia
Behi Djanati Atai Dahlia
Evin Ahmad Berivan
Erol Afşin Tiresh
Arabi Ghibeh Man in Black
Zirek Commandant Zirek
Kakha Kupatadze 
Fahmi Guerbaa Ivan Anderson Nia Mirianashvili Nofa
Maia Shamoevi Amal
Roza Mirzoiani Rojin
Mari Semidovi Ararat
Sinama Alievi Guli
Nuka Asatiani Suzan
Adik Bakoni Cewan
Tornike Alievi Hemin
Hamid Mirzoian Abu Mohammad
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