2026Nominee
Best Performance
No Good Men
Shahrbanoo Sadat
Actor · Director · Writer
Tehran, Iran
January 1, 1990
Biography
Shahrbanoo Sadat is an Iranian-born Afghan filmmaker. Before the Taliban takeover, Sadat was living and working in Copenhagen and Kabul; since 2021 she is based in Hamburg. Her first short film Vice Versa One (2010) was selected at Directors' Fortnight in Cannes in 2011. In 2016, her feature debut Wolf and Sheep won the Art Cinema Award at the same section in Cannes. In 2019, its sequel The Orphanage was also selected at the Directors' Fortnight. Her next feature No Good Men (2026) was selected at the Berlin Film Festival.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2019Nominee
Best Director
The Orphanage
2016Nominee
Best Director
Wolf and Sheep
Career Highlights
2019Highlight
Best Director
Interdependence
2026Highlight
Best Director
Super Afghan Gym
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The Orphanage
Interdependence