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 bring him to the Soviet orphanage. But in Kabul the political situation is changing. Qodrat and all the children want to defend their home.

Original title: Parwareshgah English Title: The Orphanage Country: Denmark, Germany, France, Luxembourg, Afghanistan, Qatar Language: Dari, Russian, Hindi - Urdu Production year: 2019 Length: 90 minutes

CAST

Qodratollah QADIRI, Sediqa RASULI, Masihullah FERAJI, Hasibullah RASOOLI, Ahmad Fayaz OMANI

CREW

Director: Shahrbanoo Sadat Screenwriter: Shahrbanoo Sadat DOP: Virginie Sudej Editor: Alexandra Strauss Sound: Sigrid DPA Jensen & Anne Gry Friis Kristensen Producer: Katja Adomeit Production Company : Adomeit Film Coproduction Companies: Adomeit Germany, La Fabrica Nocturna, Samsa Film, Wolf Pictures World sales: Luxbox

FESTIVALS

Cannes International Film Festival
Directors Fortnight

Munich International Film Festival
CineCopro Competition

Brussels International Film Festival
International Competition

Odessa International Film Festival
International Competition

Sarajevo International Film Festival
Kinoscope

Haugesund International Film Festival
New Nordic Films

Reykjavik Film Festival - Golden Puffin Award

IndieBo Film Festival

Melbourne International Film Festival

New-Zealand International Film Festival

Carbonia Film Festival

shahrbanoo sadat

Director/Screenwriter

Shahrbanoo Sadat is an Afghan, female writer and director, based in Kabul. She studied at Atelier Varan in Kabul. Her first feature film Wolf and Sheep was developed with the Cannes Cinéfondation Residence in 2010, Shahr - 20 years old at the time - the youngest ever selected. The film won the main award at Director’s Fortnight 2016. Her second feature film The Orphanage is also the second part of a pentalogy, five films based on an unpublished autobiography. It has also premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.

Filmography

2019, The Orphanage

2016, Wolf and Sheep

2014, Who Wants to be the Wolf (Short film)

2013, Not At Home (Short film)

2010, Vice Versa One (Short film)

2009, A Smile For Life (Short film)