Shahrbanoo Sadat

Shahrbanoo Sadat
Born1991 (age 33–34)
Tehran, Iran
OccupationFilmmaker
NationalityAfghan

Shahrbanoo Sadat (born in 1991) is an Afghan filmmaker born in Tehran, Iran. [1]

Life and career

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]

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. ^ a b 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.