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It’s the beginning of the summer. In a remote Black Sea coastal village in northern Turkey, Lale and her four sisters begin their summer break. Euphoric at the end of the school term, the girls walk home along the rocky beach, splashing about in innocent horseplay with some male classmates. Informed by a villager who saw them horsing around on the beach, Their grandmother fears the girls' virtue and their marriage prospects have been tarnished. The supposed debauchery of their childlike games causes a scandal with unintended consequences as the girls alarmed guardians engage in a systematic campaign to break their unity and tame them into traditional female roles. The family home slowly turns into a prison, classes on housework and cooking replace school, and marriages begin to be arranged. The five sisters, driven by the same desire for freedom, fight back, each in their own way, against the limits imposed on them.

Directed by first-time Turkish filmmaker, Deniz Gamze Ergüven (just out of Paris' famous film school, La FEMIS), and co-written with French director Alice Winocour, Mustang the had its premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Mustang is a wonderful example of France's long-time interest in producing films around the world and it is the French entry at the 2016 Academy Awards. Beside Mustang, France is involved in the production of no less than 13 films among the 81 considered for the 2016 Oscar for best Foreign Films.