Shahrbanoo Sadat
Director · b. 1990 · Tehran, Iran
Shahrbanoo Sadat is an Iranian-born Afghan filmmaker. Before the Taliban takeover, Sadat was living and working in Copenhagen and Kabul; since 2021 she is based in Hamburg. Her first short film Vice Versa One (2010) was selected at Directors' Fortnight in Cannes in 2011. In 2016, her feature debut Wolf and Sheep won the Art Cinema Award at the same section in Cannes. In 2019, its sequel The Orphanage was also selected at the Directors' Fortnight. Her next feature No Good Men (2026) was selected at the Berlin Film Festival.
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Movie7.4ComedyRomance2021, Afghanistan right before the Taliban’s return. Naru, the only camerawoman at Kabul’s main TV station, struggles to keep custody of her three-year-old son after leaving her serial cheater husband. Convinced no good men exist in her country, Naru is caught off guard when Qodrat, Kabul TV’s most important journalist, gives her a career opportunity. As the two crisscross the city reporting on its last days of freedom, sparks fly and Naru starts to doubt herself: could there actually be a good man out there?