The Orphanage picks up Qodrat’s tale from Wolf and Sheep, as he is now living in Kabul. It’s 1989 and Bollywood films are his passion, as he escapes into their world. Sadat brings audiences into the fantasy with vibrant, diegetic musical sequences. When Qodrat is placed in a Soviet-run orphanage, he finds his world upended as the USSR withdrawals from the country and mujahideen inch closer to his newfound home.

Director: Shahrbanoo Sadat. Cast: Qodratollah Qadiri, Sediqa Rasuli, Masihullah Feraji, Hasibullah Rasooli. 2019. 90 mins. Afghanistan, Denmark. Color. Dari, Russian. DCP.

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