Synopsis
Ghezal is 20. She has a tangible difference with the other girls of her age. She tries to live in harmony with her classmates at school and her family at home, despite her difference. Quite a challenge when you are only 70 centimeters tall.
Rewards, festivals and diffusions
Shahrbanoo Sadat
Afghan director and producer
Born in Tehran in 1990, Shahrbanoo Sadat spent her childhood in Iran before moving to her parents' native village in Afghanistan. Refusing an arranged marriage, she convinced her father and local authorities to enroll her in a boys' school. At 18, she left her village for Kabul, where a registration error led her to study cinema at Kabul University. After a year, she left her studies and worked for the Tolo TV channel.
In 2009, she attended a documentary filmmaking workshop with Ateliers Varan and made her first short documentary film. In 2011, her first fiction short film, Vice Versa One, was selected for the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes. In 2013, she founded her own production company in Kabul and co-directed Not At Home, a film selected for the Rotterdam Film Festival.
As the first female director from Afghanistan, she became the youngest ever selected for the Cinéfondation residency at Cannes, where she began writing Wolf and Sheep. This film, inspired by her adolescence in Afghanistan, won an award at the Directors' Fortnight in 2016.
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Since 2006, more than 30 young Afghan filmmakers took part to the workshops in Kabul. 33 films were made there and initiated the resurgence of documentary films in the country.
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