Mustang is a 2015 drama film co-written and directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven in her feature debut.

Set at an unspecified time in the 2010s in a remote Turkish village, Mustang depicts the lives of five young orphaned sisters and the challenges they face growing up with extended family as girls in a conservative society.

It premiered at the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Europa Cinemas Label Award.

Mustang was selected as France's submission and was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards.

When the three remaining girls stop with Erol near a bank, Ece allows a boy to have sexual contact with her in the car.

Back home, she makes jokes at the lunch table, causing her sisters to laugh loudly, and is told to go to her room.

When she is caught returning to the house, her family reinforces their efforts to make it impossible for the girls to leave, putting bars on the windows to prevent escape.

On the night of the ceremony, Lale convinces her to resist, and the girls bar themselves inside the house while the wedding party is outside, much to the embarrassment of their family.

[11] The event of girls being reprimanded for sitting on boys' shoulders, as depicted early in the film, was based on Ergüven's own experience as a teenager.

[13] Tuğba Sunguroğlu was discovered and recruited by Ergüven at the baggage claim of Charles de Gaulle Airport after a flight from Istanbul to Paris.

[11] She cited a shortage of funds as the main reason, and Ergüven's pregnancy, which the director had discovered a week before.

[10] The football scene was performed at an actual match, which no adult men were allowed to attend so that women might see it.

Ergüven approached Ellis, who initially turned it down due to a busy schedule, but was eventually persuaded.

The site's critical consensus reads, "Mustang delivers a bracing — and thoroughly timely — message whose power is further bolstered by the efforts of a stellar ensemble cast.

[21] Screen Daily's Tim Grierson found difficulty distinguishing among the sister characters but enjoyed their unity.

[22] Richard Brody wrote that Ergüven "gets appealing and fiercely committed performances from the five young actresses at the story’s center, but above all she effectively stokes righteous anger at a situation that admits no clear remedy other than mere escape".

[23] In The Daily Telegraph, Tristram Fane Saunders awarded the film four stars and identified its voice as "fierce, confident and rebellious".

[25] Ty Burr called it "an excellent first film" that condemns the treatment of women in Anatolia villages.