

An Afghan filmmaker, born in Tehran, Iran, in 1990. She moved to Afghanistan when she was a child and now lives in Hamburg, Germany, since the fall of Kabul in 2021. At just 19 years old, Sadat became the youngest filmmaker ever selected for the Cannes Cinéfondation Residency. She has been selected three times for the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival: with her short film “Vice Versa One” (2011); her debut feature “Wolf and Sheep” (2016), which won the Art Cinema Award and also was presented at the 40th Mostra; and her second feature “The Orphanage” (2019).