Shahrbanoo Sadat
Still: The OrphanageShahrbanoo SADAT (1991, Iran) is an Afghan filmmaker, writer and producer based in Kabul. Her debut film Wolf and Sheep won the top award in 2016 Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at Cannes. The film was developed with the Cannes Cinéfondation Residency in 2010; Sadat was 20 years old at the time, the youngest ever selected for the residency. She premiered her second feature The Orphanage in the same section at Cannes in 2019. Sadat studied documentary filmmaking at the Kabul workshop of Ateliers Varan in 2009. In 2013, she started her own production company Wolf Pictures in Kabul. Both Wolf and Sheep and The Orphanage are part of her pentalogy project (five feature films) based on Anwar Hashimi’s autobiographical text of 800 pages. Her film Kabul Jan has received support from the Hubert Bals Fund.
Filmography
A Smile for Life (2009, short doc), Vice Versa One (2011, short), Not at Home (2013, co-dir), Wolf and Sheep (2016), The Orphanage (2019)
More info: Wikipedia, Shahrbanoo Sadat
Shahrbanoo Sadat op IFFR
Kabul Jan
100'
Duitsland
CM 2021
Not at Home
65'
Denemarken
IFFR 2014
Wolf and Sheep
86'
Afghanistan
IFFR 2017
The Orphanage
Bollywood-filmnostalgie kleurt de ervaringen van de vijftienjarige Qodrat, die in het Sovjet-gezinde Afghanistan van de jaren tachtig in een weeshuis belandt.
90'
Denemarken
IFFR 2020