Title of film : The Orphanage
Director Name : Shahrbanoo Sadat
Cast & crew :
Producer : Katja Adomeit,Tine Mikkelsen
Editor : Alexandra Strauss
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Synopsis : In the late 1980s, 15-year-old Qodrat lives in the streets of Kabul and sells cinema tickets on the black market. He is a big Bollywood fan and he daydreams himself into some of his favorite movie scenes. One day the police brings him to the Soviet orphanage. But in Kabul the political situation is changing. Qodrat and all the children want to defend their home.
Director Bio : Shahr is an Afghan, female writer and director, based in Kabul. She studied documentary in Atelier Varan Kabul, a French workshop. Her first short fiction VICE VERSA ONE was selected at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2011. WOLF AND SHEEP was developed within Cannes Cinefondation Residence in 2010; Shahr, who was 20 years old at the time, was the youngest ever selected. The film won the Art Cinema Award at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2016.
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