"Sadat said that disconnect set her on a unique path as an Afghan director, one that embraced fun and even frank sexuality running counter to western stereotypes. My life is not a war drama every day. There's a lot of humour and a lot of comedy. And at the time I began I was with my boyfriend, so there was romance."
"Afghanistan doesn't have a film industry and it's always misrepresented by the films that are being made by international film-makers. The only type of film-making that is expected is a war drama. My life is not a war drama every day. There's a lot of humour and a lot of comedy. Afghanistan is also like the rest of the world so I decided, you know what, I'm going to make a romcom."
Shahrbanoo Sadat wrote, directed and stars in No Good Men, a genre-bending romantic comedy that opened the Berlin film festival. The film centers on a budding love affair in a Kabul newsroom on the eve of the Taliban's return in 2021 and the west's chaotic withdrawal. Sadat developed the picture while stranded on a writing retreat in Germany during the pandemic, witnessed Afghanistan's febrile final days of democracy and was evacuated to Europe as Kabul fell. Those experiences shaped a film that pays tribute to people finding joy and connection amid tumult, violence and repression, and that rejects war-only portrayals of Afghanistan by embracing humour, romance and frank sexuality.
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