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Shahrbanoo Sadat

Shahrbanoo SADAT (1991, Iran) is an Afghan filmmaker, writer and producer based in Kabul. Her debut film Wolf and Sheep won the top award in 2016 Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at Cannes. The film was developed with the Cannes Cinéfondation Residency in 2010; Sadat was 20 years old at the time, the youngest ever selected for the residency. She premiered her second feature The Orphanage in the same section at Cannes in 2019. Sadat studied documentary filmmaking at the Kabul workshop of Ateliers Varan in 2009. In 2013, she started her own production company Wolf Pictures in Kabul. Both Wolf and Sheep and The Orphanage are part of her pentalogy project (five feature films) based on Anwar Hashimi’s autobiographical text of 800 pages. Her film Kabul Jan has received support from the Hubert Bals Fund. Also supported by the Hubert Bals Fund and the Displacement Film Fund, her upcoming film Female Fitness in Kabul (2026) continues her exploration of Afghan life through personal and political narratives.

Filmografie

A Smile for Life (2009, short doc), Vice Versa One (2011, short), Not at Home (2013, co-dir), Wolf and Sheep (2016), The Orphanage (2019), Female Fitness in Kabul (2026)

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Shahrbanoo Sadat op IFFR

  • Super Afghan Gym

    Shahrbanoo Sadat | 14' | Germany | World premiere

    In a gym in downtown Kabul, a group of housewives gather during the only hour of the day reserved for women.

  • The Orphanage

    Shahrbanoo Sadat | 90' | Denmark | None

  • Kabul Jan

    Shahrbanoo Sadat | 100' | Afghanistan |

    In the romantic dramedy Kabul Jan, a young camera-operator falls head over heels in love with a married TV reporter, who is twice her a

  • Not at Home

    Shahrbanoo Sadat, Katja Adomeit | 65' | Afghanistan | International premiere

    In Kabul, tensions within a family keep on increasing as tradition and reality clash. In Germany, an Afghan girl waits in a desolate refugee centre.…

  • The Orphanage

    Shahrbanoo Sadat | 90' | Afghanistan | None

    Bollywood-film nostalgia colours the experiences of fifteen-year-old Qodrat, who ends up in an orphanage during Afghanistan’s 1980s Soviet-oriented pe

  • Wolf and Sheep

    Shahrbanoo Sadat | 86' | Afghanistan | None

    Old traditions, customs and stories live on in a small shepherd community in the mountains of Afghanistan. The experiences of the village children &nd