Youn Afghan woman making feature movie

KABUL (Pajhwok): A young Afghan woman director on Friday announced she was making her maiden feature film Wolf and Sheep — the first-ever art house movie of one hour duration.

Supported by the Cannes Film Festival Cinéfondation, the feature film is an attempt building a film culture in the country, the upcoming director said in a statement.    

Director Shahr Bano Sadat’s family and friends have fled Afghanistan but she has stayed to fight for her right to use the stories of her people and childhood to make the film.

To be shot in rural Afghanistan in April 2015, the film will not only add a creative voice to Afghan cinema, but one that is from a young female perspective.

“It’s a great feeling to make films in a country where most women are not allowed to do the simplest of things,” Shahr Bano Sadat said.

Despite security challenges, she is determined to create a poetic portrait of Afghanistan that will star the local village children.

The film began development at the Cannes Cinéfondation Residency in 2010, when the director was 20 years old — the youngest ever selected for the residence.

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