
Directing
Shahrbanoo Sadat
PS, DE, EN, FA cinema · 8 credits
Born
1 January 1990 (age 36)
Birthplace
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.
Known for
Filmography

No Good Men
as Naru, Director, Writer

Interdependence
Story, Director of Photography, Director

The Orphanage
Director, Screenplay

Qurut
Director

Wolf and Sheep
Director, Screenplay

Not at Home
Director


