Squad of Girls


Squad of Girls is a 2022 Iranian war drama film directed by Monir Gheidi and written by Gheidi, Milad Akbarnejad and Ebrahim Amini. it revolves around the Battle of [Khorramshahr (1980)|Battle of Khorramshahr] of 1980. The film screened for the first time at the 40th Fajr Film Festival where it won an award, an honorary diploma and earned 5 nominations.

Premise

the movie shows the resistance and self-sacrifice of women in the early days of the war, and by reconstructing live and documentary images of the house-to-house battle in Khorramshahr, has created the first cinematic image of that resistance from a female perspective.

Cast