Shahrbanoo Sadat

{{short description|Afghan filmmaker (born 1991)}}

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Shahrbanoo Sadat (born in 1991) is an Afghan filmmaker born in Tehran, Iran. .https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-others/afghan-filmmaker-shahrbanoo-sadat-on-fleeing-kabul-i-was-lucky-7474313/

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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.torinofilmlab.it/people/5472-shahrbanoo-sadat|title=Shahrbanoo Sadat {{!}} TorinoFilmLab|last=www.pro-idea.cz|first=Pro-idea s.r.o. /|website=www.torinofilmlab.it|language=en|access-date=2017-03-12}} 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.{{Cite news|url=https://blog.womenandhollywood.com/lff-2016-women-directors-meet-shahrbanoo-sadat-wolf-and-sheep-f46db9e8970c#.dxiwfhc7g|title=LFF 2016 Women Directors: Meet Shahrbanoo Sadat — “Wolf and Sheep”|date=2016-10-06|work=Women and Hollywood|access-date=2017-03-12}} It won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival's Directors' Fortnight in 2016.{{Cite news|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cannes-wolf-sheep-tops-directors-895321|title=Cannes: 'Wolf and Sheep' Tops Directors' Fortnight Awards|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=2017-03-12|language=en}}

Filmography

  • A smile for life, a short documentary (2009)
  • Vice Versa One, a short fiction film (2011)
  • Not at Home, a hybrid film (2013)
  • Who wants to be the wolf?, a short fiction film (2014)
  • Wolf and Sheep, a feature film (2016)
  • The Orphanage, a feature film (2019)
  • QURUT, Recipe of a possible extinct food, a short fiction film - a part of a climate change anthology (2019)

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