Archive of films Wolf and Sheep / Wolf and Sheep

Denmark / France / Sweden / Afghanistan
2016, 86 min

Section: Another View
Year: 2016

In a village in a remote part of Afghanistan, a community of people live according to their own strict laws and rules. Influenced by personal experience, the talented young director employs sensitivity to investigate life in a faraway corner of the world. Her feature debut was presented in Directors’ Fortnight at this year’s Cannes IFF.


Synopsis

A small village in an isolated part of Afghanistan is a world unto its own. The children of the shepherds run free through the surrounding mountains, and although there are no adults nearby they know how to behave and which rules to observe. The girls don’t play with the boys, and the boys practice shooting with their slingshots in order to drive off wolves. The girls pretend to arrange marriages and everyone gossips about  the latest events in the village. The film’s slow rhythm and immense sensitivity for its subject reflect the young talented filmmaker’s own seven years spent living in an isolated Afghan community. Through vibrant dialogue, working with real local children and without judging or criticizing, she lets the viewers experience several days in a forgotten corner of the world. Despite their seeming differences, the people who inhabit this place have more in common with us than we might want to admit. The film was a success at this year’s Cannes film festival.

Ivana Novotná

About the director

Shahrbanoo Sadat

Shahrbanoo Sadat (b. 1990, Tehran, Iran) is a screenwriter and director living in Kabul. She studied documentary filmmaking in a French workshop at Ateliers Varan Kabul. In 2010, she was the youngest participant of a Cinéfondation residential programme in Cannes. Her first short film, Yeke Varune, was shown in Cannes as part of Directors’ Fortnight in 2011. In 2013, she founded the Kabul-based production company Wolf Pictures; also that year, her hybrid film Not at Home was screened in the Bright Future section at Rotterdam. Her feature debut Wolf and Sheep was again shown as part of Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, where it won the section’s main award (Prix C.I.C.A.E.). She is currently working on her next feature film The Orphanage.

Contacts

Danish Film Institute
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Alpha Violet
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France
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E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.alphaviolet.com

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About the film

Color, DCP

Section: Another View
   
Director: Shahrbanoo Sadat
Screenplay: Shahrbanoo Sadat
Dir. of Photography: Virginie Surdej
Editor: Alexandra Strauss
Producer: Katja Adomeit
Production: Adomeit Film
Coproduction: La Fabrica Nocturna Productions, Film Väst, Zentropa Sweden, Wolf Pictures
Cast: Ali Khan Ataee, Amina Musavi, Masuma Hussaini, Qodratollah Qadiri, Sahar Karimi
Sales: Alpha Violet
Contact: Danish Film Institute
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