Shahrbanoo Sadat

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Shahrbanoo Sadat (* 1990 in Tehran ) is an Afghan-born director , screenwriter and women's rights activist.

Life

The filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat was born in Tehran in 1990 as the daughter of Afghan refugees . When she was 11, her family moved from the busy Iranian capital to a remote village in a rural area in central Afghanistan, where there was no electricity, no telephone, and no school for girls to attend. So every day Sadat walked to a school three hours away. The move from Tehran was a great culture shock for Sadat: “There was nothing there, just high mountains, dust and people I didn't know.” Because she didn't want to take off her glasses, which she had brought with her, the others got them ostracized and always felt like an outsider. The men and women in the village cut themselves off from one another. The women were in the house, cooking, cleaning, and drying dung , while the men outside were busy raising and slaughtering animals, making general decisions about what was right and wrong.

After seven years, Sadat left the village and moved to Kabul to finish school there. Here she later attended a documentary film workshop at Ateliers Varan. Here she shot her first short film Vice Versa One (actual title Yeke Varune ), which she presented in 2011 at the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in Cannes . When Sadat was just 20 years old, she was selected by the Cannes' Cinéfondation Residence and learned the basics of filmmaking in Paris. It was there that she began to watch high quality films, an opportunity she had never seen before. Sadat presented the film Not at Home in September 2013 at the Danish Images Festival and in October 2013 at the Afghan Human Rights Film Festival. In the same year, Sadat founded the production company Wolf Pictures in Kabul and began producing her film drama Wolf and Sheep , which she presented on May 16, 2016 as part of the Quinzaine des réalisateurs series at the 2016 Cannes International Film Festival , where she worked with was awarded the Art Cinema Award . Sadat also wrote the script for the film. The film is inspired by Sadat's own youth. Katja Adomeit , with whom Sadat had made the film Not at Home , acted as producer .

Today Sadat commutes between Kabul and Copenhagen .

Filmography

  • 2011: Yeke Varune (also known as Vice Versa One , short film)
  • 2013: Not at Home
  • 2016: Wolf and Sheep
  • 2019: The Orphanage (Parwareshgah)

Awards

Cannes International Film Festival

  • 2016 : Received the Art Cinema Award as part of the Quinzaine des réalisateurs ( Wolf and Sheep )

Jerusalem Film Festival

  • 2016: Nomination for the FIPRESCI Award as first feature (Wolf and Sheep)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Katja Adomeit in conversation with Wendy Mitchell: Cannes: Shahrbanoo Sadat, Katja Adomeit talk 'Wolf And Sheep' In: screendaily.com, May 15, 2016.
  2. ↑ Alissa Simon: Cannes Film Review: 'Wolf and Sheep' In: Variety, May 20, 2016.
  3. ↑ Wolf and Sheep In: adomeitfilm.com. Retrieved September 3, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Sadat, Shahrbanoo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Afghan-born film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran , Iran