Sisters in Arms

Sisters in Arms (Sœurs d'armes, 2019) is a war drama you can watch online on iFILM. The directing debut of French journalist Caroline Fourest drops the viewer into Syria, inside an all-female unit fighting the militants of the so-called Islamic State.

Kenza and Yaël leave France as volunteers and take up positions alongside Kurdish forces. There they meet Zara, a Yezidi woman who survived captivity after her village was destroyed. Three strangers from different worlds end up in the same trench — learning to shoot, to bury their dead, and to frighten enemies who never expected a woman to pick up a rifle. The cast includes Dilan Gwyn, Amira Casar, Camélia Jordana and Esther Garrel.

Fourest shoots it raw and angry, refusing to dress war up as adventure: the camera stays close to the mud, the exhaustion, the thin pauses between firefights. It lands best with viewers curious about resistance told from the women's side of the line rather than parade-ground heroics. Stream Sisters in Arms (2019) online on iFILM.