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| Born | 1991 (age 31–32) Tehran, Iran |
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| Nationality | Afghan |
Shahrbanoo Sadat (born in 1991) is an Afghan filmmaker born in Tehran, Iran. [1]
Shahrbanoo Sadat | |
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| Born | 1991 (age 31–32) Tehran, Iran |
| Occupation | Filmmaker |
| Nationality | Afghan |
Shahrbanoo Sadat (born in 1991) is an Afghan filmmaker born in Tehran, Iran. [1]
Sadat grew up in Tehran and 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]
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