Shahrbanoo Sadat
Afghan filmmaker (born 1991)
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Life and career
Sadat was born and grew up in Tehran until she was 12 and then returned with her parents to a remote community in central Afghanistan.[2] She studied documentary filmmaking at the Kabul workshop of Ateliers Varan,[2] and began her career working in cinema vérité. Her first feature film, Wolf and Sheep, tells the story of a village much like the one where she grew up.[3] It won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival's Directors' Fortnight in 2016.[4]
Filmography
Feature films
| Year | English Title | Original Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Not at Home | |
| 2016 | Wolf and Sheep | |
| 2019 | The Orphanage | پرورشگاه |
| 2026 | No Good Men | |
Short films
- A smile for life (2009), documentary
- Vice Versa One (2011)
- Who wants to be the wolf? (2014)
- QURUT, Recipe of a possible extinct food (2019)