After her successful debut “Wolf and Sheep” (2016), which premiered to awards at Cannes’ Quinzanne selection, the only female filmmaker from Afghanistan to achieve such success, Shahrbanoo Sadat, got back to the festival circuit with its follow-up “The Orphanage”, the intended second instalment of the pentalogy based on the diaries of her writer friend Anwar Hashimi. It premiered last year at the same section of Cannes, before heading up on a long festival tour with the last stop (for now at least) at Zagreb Film Festival, where it played in the main competition.
“The Orphanage” is screening at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema
The slightly fantastical drama “Wolf and Sheep” was partly centred around the boy named Qodrat (Quodratollah Qadiri) and his growing up in rural Afghanistan. In “The Orphanage”, we follow him through his teenage years spent in the titular institution in the country’s capital Kabul at...
“The Orphanage” is screening at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema
The slightly fantastical drama “Wolf and Sheep” was partly centred around the boy named Qodrat (Quodratollah Qadiri) and his growing up in rural Afghanistan. In “The Orphanage”, we follow him through his teenage years spent in the titular institution in the country’s capital Kabul at...
- 2/2/2022
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
Last August, Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat managed to escape from Kabul with part of her family as Taliban fighters took over the city while U.S. forces withdrew.
Now, her “Weekend With…Shahrbanoo Sadat” event at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, starting on Saturday Jan. 29, will give U.S. audiences an opportunity to dive deep into the bold young filmmaker’s three works: “Not at Home,” “Wolf and Sheep,” and “The Orphanage.”
“With everything that’s happened in Afghanistan, I think it’s important, especially for American audiences, to take a look at my films,” Sadat tells Variety, in order to see her country “from a different point of view.”
“My cinema focusses on the everyday life of people,” the director notes.
“Not at Home,” the first work in the series, is a hybrid documentary/feature film that Sadat co-directed with her German producing partner Katja Adomeit.
Now, her “Weekend With…Shahrbanoo Sadat” event at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, starting on Saturday Jan. 29, will give U.S. audiences an opportunity to dive deep into the bold young filmmaker’s three works: “Not at Home,” “Wolf and Sheep,” and “The Orphanage.”
“With everything that’s happened in Afghanistan, I think it’s important, especially for American audiences, to take a look at my films,” Sadat tells Variety, in order to see her country “from a different point of view.”
“My cinema focusses on the everyday life of people,” the director notes.
“Not at Home,” the first work in the series, is a hybrid documentary/feature film that Sadat co-directed with her German producing partner Katja Adomeit.
- 1/28/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Kabul-based filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat has made it out of Afghanistan, her producer Katja Adomeit formally announced on Monday.
Sadat was able to make it through thronging crowds and Taliban checkpoints into the airport, along with nine of her family members, after numerous days of trying, said Adomeit, who is also CEO of Adomeit Film. Sadat is currently in Abu Dhabi and will soon board a plane to Europe. Her passage was aided by the French government and “help from people all around the world,” Adomeit said.
Last week, Sadat’s friends contacted by Variety remained concerned for her safety.
Sadat’s first feature, “Wolf and Sheep,” was developed with the Cannes Cinefondation Residence in 2010. She was only 20 years old at the time, making her the youngest-ever selected for the program. The film went on to win the main award at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight section in 2016. It was the first installment...
Sadat was able to make it through thronging crowds and Taliban checkpoints into the airport, along with nine of her family members, after numerous days of trying, said Adomeit, who is also CEO of Adomeit Film. Sadat is currently in Abu Dhabi and will soon board a plane to Europe. Her passage was aided by the French government and “help from people all around the world,” Adomeit said.
Last week, Sadat’s friends contacted by Variety remained concerned for her safety.
Sadat’s first feature, “Wolf and Sheep,” was developed with the Cannes Cinefondation Residence in 2010. She was only 20 years old at the time, making her the youngest-ever selected for the program. The film went on to win the main award at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight section in 2016. It was the first installment...
- 8/23/2021
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Danish-German company Adomeit Film is set to explore uncharted territory with what could be the world’s first romantic comedy set in Afghanistan.
Shahrbanoo Sadat’s “Kabul Jan,” the third part in a planned pentalogy based on co-writer Anwar Hashimi’s autobiographical work, follows a young camera operator who falls in love with a married TV reporter twice her age.
Set in the biggest private TV station in Kabul, the story explores the forbidden romance while also examining the often dangerous work of reporters in the bustling newsroom along with the absurdities of modern-day life in the city.
“It’s also a tribute to all the journalists in Afghanistan,” says producer Katja Adomeit, noting the alarming number of reporters who have been killed in the country in recent months.
The project is among the titles selected this year for the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s CineMart co-production market and one...
Shahrbanoo Sadat’s “Kabul Jan,” the third part in a planned pentalogy based on co-writer Anwar Hashimi’s autobiographical work, follows a young camera operator who falls in love with a married TV reporter twice her age.
Set in the biggest private TV station in Kabul, the story explores the forbidden romance while also examining the often dangerous work of reporters in the bustling newsroom along with the absurdities of modern-day life in the city.
“It’s also a tribute to all the journalists in Afghanistan,” says producer Katja Adomeit, noting the alarming number of reporters who have been killed in the country in recent months.
The project is among the titles selected this year for the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s CineMart co-production market and one...
- 1/29/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
After her successful debut “Wolf and Sheep” (2016), which premiered to awards at Cannes’ Quinzanne selection, the only female filmmaker from Afghanistan to achieve such success, Shahrbanoo Sadat, got back to the festival circuit with its follow-up “The Orphanage”, the intended second instalment of the pentalogy based on the diaries of her writer friend Anwar Hashimi. It premiered last year at the same section of Cannes, before heading up on a long festival tour with the last stop (for now at least) at Zagreb Film Festival, where it played in the main competition.
The slightly fantastical drama “Wolf and Sheep” was partly centred around the boy named Qodrat (Quodratollah Qadiri) and his growing up in rural Afghanistan. In “The Orphanage”, we follow him through his teenage years spent in the titular institution in the country’s capital Kabul at the dusk of the Soviet rule there. We meet him (the non-professional...
The slightly fantastical drama “Wolf and Sheep” was partly centred around the boy named Qodrat (Quodratollah Qadiri) and his growing up in rural Afghanistan. In “The Orphanage”, we follow him through his teenage years spent in the titular institution in the country’s capital Kabul at the dusk of the Soviet rule there. We meet him (the non-professional...
- 11/21/2020
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
Shahrbanoo Sadat's The Orphanage is exclusively playing on Mubi in most countries from May 14 - June 13, 2020 as part of the series The New Auteurs.While working on The Orphanage, I was fighting with two clichés. One “orphanage” and the other “Afghanistan." I wanted to show an orphanage where my best friend Anwar Hashimi lived for almost eight years during the years 1984-1992 in Kabul.The orphanage I wanted to talk about was not one of those orphanages that we see in movies or we read about in books, where children are starving or having a really miserable life, and they get beaten and have to work. It was the opposite.Before 1984, Anwar was a street kid, selling black market tickets in front of cinema theatres for Bollywood films that were very popular in Afghanistan that time as well as now. He ended up in the Russian orphanage in Kabul...
- 5/8/2020
- MUBI
Amusing, at times poignant Bollywood re-creations are used in “The Orphanage” much as Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat mixed folklore with realism in her award-winning “Wolf and Sheep,” in both cases to add heightened levels of cultural significance and an element of fantasy as necessary correlatives to hardscrabble lives. While Sadat’s second feature is something of a comedown from her 2016 debut, her latest balances a clear-eyed re-creation of a teen’s time in an orphanage with a certain nostalgia for childhood innocence, augmented by the imaginative freedom of the Bollywood scenes. Though unlikely to travel as widely as “Wolf,” Sadat’s “Orphanage” will find a warm welcome at festivals worldwide.
The two films mine the unpublished diary of her friend and muse Anwar Hashimi, whose life story will continue in further projected installments. Actor Qodratollah Qadiri resumes the role of Qodrat, now 15 and first seen here sleeping in an abandoned...
The two films mine the unpublished diary of her friend and muse Anwar Hashimi, whose life story will continue in further projected installments. Actor Qodratollah Qadiri resumes the role of Qodrat, now 15 and first seen here sleeping in an abandoned...
- 5/22/2019
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
Back in the U.S.S.R.: Sadat Goes Back to Soviet-Ruled Afghanistan in Amiable Sophomore Film
Following the success of her celebrated 2016 debut, Wolf and Sheep, which solidified her as the first woman director from Afghanistan to screen at the Cannes Film Festival, Shahrbanoo Sadat returns with another adaptation of Anwar Hashimi’s diaries with The Orphanage (which is meant to serve as the next chapter of a planned pentalogy based on the author’s autobiography). Set in late 1980’s Soviet-ruled Kabul, Hashimi’s memories are translated through the eyes of several young boys residing in an orphanage while the country hinges on civil war about to be brought on by the Mujahideen.…...
Following the success of her celebrated 2016 debut, Wolf and Sheep, which solidified her as the first woman director from Afghanistan to screen at the Cannes Film Festival, Shahrbanoo Sadat returns with another adaptation of Anwar Hashimi’s diaries with The Orphanage (which is meant to serve as the next chapter of a planned pentalogy based on the author’s autobiography). Set in late 1980’s Soviet-ruled Kabul, Hashimi’s memories are translated through the eyes of several young boys residing in an orphanage while the country hinges on civil war about to be brought on by the Mujahideen.…...
- 5/18/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat’s “The Orphanage”will participate at this year’s Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, and Variety has been granted access to an exclusive clip from the upcoming feature.
Sadat’s first feature, “Wolf and Sheep,” was developed with the Cannes Cinéfondation Residence in 2010 and scored the Art Cinema Award at the 2016 Directors’ Fortnight. “The Orphanage,” lead produced by Katja Adomeit, is the second of five films based on the unpublished autobiography of Sadat’s best friend Anwar Hashimi.
1989: In Soviet-friendly Kabul during the Afghan Civil War, 15-year-old Qodrat lives on his own in the streets, selling key rings and scalping cinema tickets to make ends meet. A huge fan of Bollywood films himself, the young man often daydreams of acting in one of the brightly colored song and dance pictures.
After a police crackdown on scalpers, Qodrat is collected off the streets and placed in a Soviet orphanage.
Sadat’s first feature, “Wolf and Sheep,” was developed with the Cannes Cinéfondation Residence in 2010 and scored the Art Cinema Award at the 2016 Directors’ Fortnight. “The Orphanage,” lead produced by Katja Adomeit, is the second of five films based on the unpublished autobiography of Sadat’s best friend Anwar Hashimi.
1989: In Soviet-friendly Kabul during the Afghan Civil War, 15-year-old Qodrat lives on his own in the streets, selling key rings and scalping cinema tickets to make ends meet. A huge fan of Bollywood films himself, the young man often daydreams of acting in one of the brightly colored song and dance pictures.
After a police crackdown on scalpers, Qodrat is collected off the streets and placed in a Soviet orphanage.
- 5/13/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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