Wolf and Sheep
by Shahrbanoo Sadat
►Synopsis
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.
Specifications
Denmark/France/Sweden/Afghanistan 2016 86mn 1.85:1 5.1 Hazaragi 1st Feature Film
produced by
Adomeit Film, Katja Adomeit (Denmark)
co-produced by
La Fabrica Nocturna Productions (France)
Wolf Pictures (Afghanistan)
Zentropa Sweden (Sweden)
written by
Shahrbanoo Sadat
Director's Filmography
- 2011 – A Smile for Life (22′)
- 2011- Vice Versa One (9.30′) – Selected at Director’s Fortnight
- 2013- Not at Home (65′)- Selected in IFF- Rotterdam-Bright Future
- 2014 – Who wants to be the wolf ? (11′)
Crew
Cinematographer: Virginie Surdej
Editor: Alexandra Strauss
Sound recordist: Sigrid DPA Jensen
Sound design: Thomas Jaeger & Thomas Arent
Cast
Sediqa
Qodrat
Amina
Sahar
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Festivals & Awards
- Cannes 2016 – Director’s Fortnight – Art Cinema Award
- Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic – Another View
- Jerusalem, Israel – Debut Competition
- IndieBo, Colombia – Competition
- Locarno – Film deglie Jury – Special screening
- Haugesund, Norway – Competition
- Salé – Women’s IFF, Marocco – Special Jury Prize
- Bergen, Norway – Panorama
- Dominican Republic & Puerto Rico – Competition
- BFI London, DARE section
- Festival Nouveau Cinéma, Québec
- Busan FF – Asian Premiere – Flash Forward
- Arts Cinema Mongolia – UlaanBaatar FF
- Riga FF, Competition
- Chicago FF – US Premiere – New Director’s Competition
- Sao Paulo FF- Brazil – New Director’s Competition
- Molodist Kiev Ukraine – Competition
- Thessaloniki IFF – Open Horizons
- Braunschweig IFF – Competition
- Inverness FF, Scotland
- CineCity Brighton, UK
- Cork, Ireland
- Goa IFF, Competition
- Singapore IFF, Asian Vision
- Dubai IFF, Panorama
- Israel Cinematheque – Directors’Fortnight replay
- IFFR Rotterdam 2017 – Limelight
- MOMA Doc USA – Fortnight
- Kosmorama, Trondheim, Norway
- KinoPavasaris-Vilnius, Lithuania
- Istanbul IFF, Turkey
- Hong Kong- Global Vision, HK
- Minneapolis, USA
- Fajr, Iran Best Asian Director
- Toronto, IFFSA
- Sydney, Australia – Competition
- Taiwan FF, Taipei
- Lessinia Film Festival,Italy – Jury Prize
- Transbaikaia FF , Russia – Young Professional Prize
- Oz Asia Film Festival, Australia
- Camberra FF, Australia
- Casa Asia FF , Spain
- Days of Cinema, Palestine
- Carthage FF, Tunisia (2017)
- Dublin Feminist FF, Ireland (2017)
Press Quotes
“Absorbing” ; “Fantasmagoric storytelling” – The Hollywood Reporter (David Rooney)
“…mixes naturalistic, ethnographic images with a thred of folkloric magical realism” – Variety (Alissa Simon)
“simple but sincere, respectful and heartfelt and marks the arrival of a promising new talent” – Screen (Allan Hunter)
“An unforgetttable piece of atmosphere” – Roger Ebert (Nick Allen)
