Shahrbanoo Sadat

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

Shahrbanoo Sadat
Born1991 (age 29–30)
Tehran, Iran
OccupationFilmmaker
NationalityAfghan

Life and career

Sadat grew up in a remote community in central Afghanistan.[1] She studied documentary filmmaking at the Kabul workshop of Ateliers Varan ,[1] 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.[2] It won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival's Directors' Fortnight in 2016.[3]

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. www.pro-idea.cz, Pro-idea s.r.o. /. "Shahrbanoo Sadat | TorinoFilmLab". www.torinofilmlab.it. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  2. "LFF 2016 Women Directors: Meet Shahrbanoo Sadat — "Wolf and Sheep"". Women and Hollywood. 2016-10-06. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  3. "Cannes: 'Wolf and Sheep' Tops Directors' Fortnight Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
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