Shahrbanoo Sadat Explained

Birth Place:	Tehran, Iran
Occupation:	Filmmaker
Nationality:	Afghan

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, 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)

Notes and References

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