Sadat

Tolo News: Shahrbano Sadat, the young Afghan female film maker and director of Wolf and Sheep, which won a Cannes Film Festival prize earlier this year, has said that insecurity in the country was the reason she filmed the movie outside of the country. She says that with every film she works on there are dozens of job opportunities for Afghans but because of insecurity she cannot afford to make movies in the country – and is therefore forced to hire foreigners. Sadat is the first Afghan film director to have won a Cannes Film Festival award. Click here to read more (external link).