The 2015 drama Mustang , directed by Turkish-French filmmaker Deniz Gamze Ergüven, and co-written by Ergüven and Alice Winokur, follows five sisters in a remote Turkish town sometime in the 2010s. On the last day of the school term the sisters, filled with the school’s-out exuberance that’s the province of the young, decide to walk home rather than take the bus. Having fallen in with a group of schoolboys, they stop by a river and begin to play: the girls sit astride the boys’ shoulders in a