Director: Shahrbanoo Sadat
Vice VerSa One
Director: Shahrbanoo Sadat
Afghanistan, 2010, 10 min, feature film
Languages: Dari with English subtitles
Somewhere in Afghanistan, a little girl carries a metal box on her back to collect people's ballot papers. They are allowed to give her anything they want.
The Orphanage
Director: Shahrbanoo Sadat
Denmark/France/Luxembourg/Germany/Afghanistan/Qatar, 2019, 90min, Feature Film
Languages: Original version with English subtitles
15-year-old Quodrat lives on the streets of Kabul without a family or a roof over his head. He spends most of the day at the city's cinema, earning the money to live from cinema tickets and small goods he sells on the black market. In the cinema hall, Quodrat finds a place to dream. In his imagination, he becomes the hero of love and action films of the glamorous Bollywood era and loses himself in the magical world of screen stories. When Quodrat is caught one day by the city authorities, he has to leave behind everyday life on the streets forever. A new life and thus an exciting journey full of curiosity, fantasy and powerful doses of reality await him in Kabul's children's home, where he will say goodbye together with other teenagers to the last days of childhood.
After the films, there will be a talk with director Shahrbanoo Sadat.
Shahrbanoo Sadat, born in 1991, is a screenwriter and director. In 2009, she took part in the Kabul documentary film workshop of "Ateliers Varan". Her first short feature film "Vice Versa One" was selected at the Directors' Fortnight 2011 in Cannes, for her debut feature "Wolf and Sheep" she was awarded the main prize at the Directors' Fortnight 2016. Her second feature film "The Orphanage" premiered in the same section at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019. The film received numerous international nominations and was awarded Best Film at the Reykjavik International Film Festival. In 2022 she was a jury member for "Best First Feature" at the Berlinale. She is currently developing a romantic comedy, "Kabul Jan".
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