Wolf and sheep / Волк и овца

DENMARK – FRANCE – SWEDEN – AFGHANISTAN
2016, 86 MIN.

Director & scriptwriter Shahrbanoo Sadat
Camera Virginie Surdej
Cast: Sediqa, Qodrat, Amina, Sahar, Masuma, Mohammad Amin, Zekria, Qorban Ali, Ali Khan
Producers Katja Adomeit, Xavier Rocher, Marina Perales Marhuenda, Shahrbanoo Sadat, Madeleine Ekman, Simon Perry
Production Adomeit Film, La Fabrica Nocturna Productions, Film Vast, Zentropa Sweden, Wolf Pictures

In rural Afghanistan, people are storytellers who make up and tell each other tales of mystery and imagination to explain the world in which they live. The shepherd children own the mountains and, although no adults are around, they know the rules; they know that boys and girls are not allowed to be together. The boys practice with their slings to fight wolves. The girls smoke secretly and play at getting married, dreaming of finding a husband soon. They gossip about Sediqa; she’s eleven years old and an outsider. The girls think she is cursed. Qodrat, also eleven years old, becomes the subject of gossip when his mother remarries an old man with two wives. Qodrat roams alone in the most isolated parts of the mountains, where he meets Sediqa and they become friends.

SHAHRBANOO SADAT
Scriptwriter and director. She is based in Kabul. Studied documentary filmmaking at the “Atelier Varan Kabul” a French Workshop. Her first short fiction “Vice Versa One” (2010) was selected at Directors’ Fortnight in 2011. In 2013, she launched her production company “Wolf Pictures” in Kabul. Her filmography includes “A Smile for Life” (2009, short), “Who Wants to Be The Wolf?” (2014, short), “Not at Home” (2013).

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