Director: Shahrbanoo Sadat

Shahrbanoo Sadat is an Afghan filmmaker based in Hamburg, Germany, since the fall of Kabul in 2021. She has been selected three times for Cannes Directors' Fortnight, with Vice Versa One (2011), Wolf and Sheep (2016), and The Orphanage (2019). At 19, she became the youngest filmmaker selected for the Cannes Cinéfondation Residency, where she developed Wolf and Sheep. Both features are part of a planned five-film series inspired by Anwar Hashimi's autobiography. Her latest film, No Good Men, is in post-production. She has also served on juries at Berlinale, Locarno, Torino Film Lab, and other international festivals.