Another View 2016 / Wolf and Sheep / Denmark, France, Sweden, Afghanistan 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.
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
86 min / Color, DCP
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
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.
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