FRI MARCH 11, 2022 7:00 pm SISTERS IN ARMS Free Los Feliz 3 | Q&A with filmmaker Caroline Fourest. Moderated by Patt Morrison. Co-presented by the Consulate General of France, Villa Albertine in Los Angeles and Justice for Kurds Tickets are no longer on sale for this event. Your RSVP is being held for 1 minute, please select the quantity and fill out your contact info to complete the RSVP First Name Last Name Email Quantity Subscribe to our newsletter FINISH
ABOUT THE FILM As the Kurds face a possible massacre in Syria, SISTERS IN ARMS tells the story of a group of women soldiers who fight to defend their freedom and save the Yazidi minority from persecution and slavery. After young Zara (Dilan Gwyn) is sold as a sex slave to a Jihadist, she manages to escape and joins an international squad of female fighters led by the Kurdish defense forces. Coming from different backgrounds and religions, they all have wounds to heal, as they courageously join together and wage a major assault against fanaticism. This feature film is a Feminist War movie, inspired by a true story which just made history. With Dilan Gwyn, Mark Ryder, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, Korkmaz Arslan, Camélia Jordana, Nanna Blondell, Maya Sansa, Noush Skaugen. FORMAT: DCP ABOUT THE FILMMAKER Caroline Fourest is an award-winning author, columnist and filmmaker. She is the co-founder of the feminist, anti-racist and secularist journal ProChoix, has founded the weekly newspaper Franc-tireur and has her own weekly show on French TV. In the face of many threats, she has written extensively on the far right and extremism movements and was a journalist at Charlie Hebdo for five years around the time of the “cartoon affair”. As a filmmaker, she has directed 21 documentaries and has produced 70 films about Muslim women’s voices around the world. Her latest book, The Offended Generation, proposing to defend Egality without killing freedom of speech, is a best-seller and has been translated in many languages. http://www.carolinefourest.com