Codirected with Sadat’s producing partner, Katja Adomeit, Not At Home is a hybrid documentary. This genre-bending approach to filmmaking continues throughout Sadat’s work, as she works with first-time actors and emphasizes naturalism in her screenplays. Here Sadat and Adomeit follow a family with four daughters in Kabul, along with the story of a young refugee in a German displaced persons camp. Sadat drew on her close friend’s experience leaving Afghanistan to create this layered narrative.

Directors: Shahrbanoo Sadat, Katja Adomeit. Cast: Hilla Wali Mohammad, Nikmal Dostakhel. 2013. 65 mins. Denmark/Afghanistan/Germany. Color. Dari, German, Swahili, Arabic, Russian. DCP. 

All film screenings of Weekend With... Shahrbanoo Sadat are available here.