Shahrbanoo Sadat (she/her) is an Afghan filmmaker based in Ham-burg, Germany, since the fall of Kabul in 2021. She has been selected three times for the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival—with her short film VICE VERSA ONE in 2011, Her debut feature WOLF AND SHEEP in 2016 (Camera d’Or nominee and CECAE Award winner), and her second feature THE ORPHANAGE in 2019. At just 19 years old, Shahrbanoo became the youngest filmmaker ever selected for the prestigious Cannes Cinéfondation Residency, where she developed WOLF AND SHEEP in 2010. WOLF AND SHEEP and THE ORPHANAGE are both part of a planned five-part film series inspired by Anwar Hashimi’s unpublished 800-page autobiographical manuscrit.

NO GOOD MEN is the third installment in the series. Shahrbanoo served on the jury for the Best First Feature Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. She has also been a juror at several other esteemed festivals, including the Locarno Film Festival, Torino Film Lab, Festival des 3 Continents in Nantes, Reykjavík International Film Festival, FIFDH, and many others.