Vice Versa One

Shahrbanoo Sadat

Shahrbanoo Sadat (b. 1991), is an Afghan script writer and director based in Hamburg, Germany since Kabul’s fall in August 2021. Her debut film WOLF AND SHEEP won the top award at Directors’ Fortnight-Cannes Film festival 2016. The film was developed with the Cannes Cinéfondation Residency in 2010, Shahrbanoo was 20 years old at the time – the youngest ever selected for the residence. She premiered her second feature THE ORPHANAGE at the same section at Cannes Film Festival in 2019. Shahr studied documentary filmmaking at the Kabul workshop of “Atelier Varan” in 2009. Her first short fiction “Vice Versa One'' was selected at Directors’ Fortnight-2011. Both WOLF AND SHEEP and THE ORPHANAGE are part of her pentalogy project (5 feature films) based on Anwar’s Hashimi autobiographical text of 800 pages. At the moment, Shahrbanoo is developing the third part, KABUL JAN, a romantic comedy.