Shahrbanoo Sadat

Shahrbanoo Sadat
Born	Tehran, Iran
Occupation	Filmmaker
Nationality	Afghan

Shahrbanoo Sadat is an Afghan filmmaker born in Tehran, Iran. ^[1]

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

• 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)

References

1. .https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-others/afghan-filmmaker-shahrbanoo-sadat-on-fleeing-kabul-i-was-lucky-7474313/
2. www.pro-idea.cz, Pro-idea s.r.o. /. "Shahrbanoo Sadat | TorinoFilmLab". www.torinofilmlab.it. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
3. "LFF 2016 Women Directors: Meet Shahrbanoo Sadat — "Wolf and Sheep"". Women and Hollywood. 2016-10-06. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
4. "Cannes: 'Wolf and Sheep' Tops Directors' Fortnight Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2017-03-12.

External links

• Shahrbanoo Sadat at IMDb