Shahrbanoo Sadat
Shahrbanoo Sadat is an Afghan filmmaker born in Tehran, Iran.
Shahrbanoo Sadat

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- Birthplace
- Tehran, Iran
- Occupation
- Filmmaker
- Name
- Shahrbanoo Sadat Shahrbanoo Sadat is an Afghan filmmaker born in Tehran, Iran.
- Born
- 1990 · Tehran.
- Nationality
- Afghanistan
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• Birthplace — Tehran, Iran • Occupation — Filmmaker • Name — Shahrbanoo Sadat Shahrbanoo Sadat is an Afghan filmmaker born in Tehran, Iran.
Life and career
Life and career
• Illustration — Sadat in 2020 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. She studied documentary filmmaking at the Kabul workshop of Ateliers Varan, 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. It won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival's Directors' Fortnight in 2016.
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Shahrbanoo Sadat is recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded as screenwriter, filmmaker and director.

Shahrbanoo Sadat at the screening of "The Orphanage" during the IFFR 2020
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Shahrbanoo Sadat and Anwar Hashimi at the IFFR 2020 promoting the movie "The Orphanage"
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Feature films
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
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)
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- 1.Tiana. Interview with Shahrbanoo Sadat / Wolf and Sheep. Film in Revolt. 12 giugno 2017.
- 2.Judith Kelly. Shahrbanoo Sadat in Kabul: Forever young and ardent. Pax Christi. 12 settembre 2021.
- 3.Freja Dam. An Outsider's Observations. Det Danske Filminstitut. 4 maggio 2016.
- 4.Rachel Goldman. Shahrbanoo Sadat: Afghani Cinéma Verité Champion. Picture This Post. 24 marzo 2021.
- 5.Alex King. The young filmmaker defying a corrupt movie industry in style. Huck. 15 ottobre 2016.
- 6.Jeremy Elphick. Wolf and Sheep – An Interview with Shahrbanoo Sadat. Four Three Film. 17 giugno 2017.
- 7.Interview: Shahrbanoo Sadat. Raising Films. ottobre 2016.
- 8.Alex Ritman. Cannes-Winning Afghan Director Trying to Escape Kabul: “If I Survive This, I Will Make Films About What Happened”. The Hollywood Reporter. 17 agosto 2021.
- 9.Rebecca Davis. Afghan Filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat Safely Leaves Afghanistan. Variety (periodico) Variety. 17 agosto 2021.
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