Director Husson was inspired to make the film after reading about the exploits of real-life Kurdish women who were taken hostage by Islamic State fighters as they swept across Syria and Iraq, but managed to escape and then took up arms against their former captors.
Farahani’s character in The Girls of the Sun has been inspired by real-life Kurdish women who were taken hostage by Islamic fighters in Syria and Iraq, but who later took up arms against their captors.
