Wolf and Sheep (2016)
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.
- Date of release
- 2016-11-30
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (14)
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Shahrbanoo Sadat
Casting
- Sediqa Rasuli
- Qodratollah Qadiri
- Amina Musavi
- Sahar Karimi
- Masuma Hussaini
- Said Mohammad Amin Naderi
- Zekria Khoda Dadi
- Sediqa Rasuli — Sediqa
- Qodratollah Qadiri — Qodrat
- Amina Musavi — Sabzina
- Sahar Karimi — Nikbakht
- Masuma Hussaini — Nazok
Interesting facts
Wolf and Sheep is a 2016 Danish-Afghan drama film written and directed by Shahrbanoo Sadat. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Art Cinema Award. It is the first installment in a planned pentalogy based on the unpublished diaries of Anwar Hashimi. Its sequel, The Orphanage, came out in 2019.
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