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 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