Shahrbanoo Sadat is an Afghan filmmaker who has been based in Hamburg, Germany, since the fall of Kabul in 2021. She has been developing a film series inspired by an unpublished autobiographical manuscript written by actor and writer Anwar Hashimi’s. The first installment, Wolf and Sheep (2016) received the CICAE Art Cinema Award at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, and the second installment, The Orphanage (2019), was also invited to the Cannes Directors’ Fortngiht. No Good Men is the third installment in the series, and it was the opening film for the 2026 Berlinale.
From Busan International Film Festival 2026, No. 31
