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THE FUTURE THAT AWAITS

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Brick Sellers of Kabul
A row of kids queues to sell bricks that they collected from a collapsed structure to a man who stacks the bricks up into a cubic sculpture, perhaps in an effort to erect the very same structure the bricks originally came from.
White House
White House represents a government building that was knocked down by a US air strike. Only a few columns (it was a neoclassical style construction) and a few walls of the building stand in their original vertical condition, all the rest has been reduced to rubble. Lida Abdul started painting everything in white, from the small stones to the entire column
Vice Versa One
Somewhere in Afghanistan, a little girl goes place to place to collect people's votes.
Kaloo School
In between the famous Baba Mountain in rural Center of Afghanistan there is a village with 2500 families with just two schools for children. Nine-year-old Fakhereh from Afghanistan isn’t content to be a goatherd. She goes to school and enjoys learning. However, she has to walk there on foot and the journey takes two-and-a-half hours.
Bacha Posh
Bacha Posh is a multifaceted documentary focusing on the Afghan tradition of dressing girls as boys in order for them to be able to fulfill the function of a male family member.
The Lowland
Lowland is an intimate portrait of a community of undocumented migrant Afghan children, living and working as garbage collectors in the margins of Tehran

THE FUTURE THAT AWAITS presents films about Afghan children and youth made in the years following the US-led invasion of Afghanistan and until the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in Summer 2021. Sharing experiences throughout Afghanistan as well as in Iran, the films explore how characters navigate inherited political realities, legacies of social traditions, access to education, isolated communities, and child labor. The in-person screening features five short films that reflect the main themes of the program.


Featuring works by Lida Abdul, Yalda Afsah, Aidin Halalzadeh, Sahra Mani, Shahrbanoo Sadat, Sepideh Salarvand, and Ginan Seidl.


This program is co-presented by ArteEast and The Clemente and is curated by Lila Nazemian (ArteEast Special Projects Curator)

Vice Versa One, Shahrbanoo Sadat, Afghanistan, 2011

Dari with English and French subtitles


Somewhere in Afghanistan, a little girl goes place to place to collect people's votes.



About the filmmaker


Shahrbanoo Sadat (b. 1991), is an Afghan script writer and director based in Hamburg, Germany since Kabul’s fall in August 2021. Her debut film WOLF AND SHEEP won the top award at Directors’ Fortnight-Cannes Film festival 2016. The film was developed with the Cannes Cinéfondation Residency in 2010, Shahrbanoo was 20 years old at the time – the youngest ever selected for the residence. She premiered her second feature THE ORPHANAGE at the same section at Cannes Film Festival in 2019. Shahr studied documentary filmmaking at the Kabul workshop of “Atelier Varan” in 2009. Her first short fiction “Vice Versa One'' was selected at Directors’ Fortnight-2011. Both WOLF AND SHEEP and THE ORPHANAGE are part of her pentalogy project (5 feature films) based on Anwar’s Hashimi autobiographical text of 800 pages. At the moment, Shahrbanoo is developing the third part, KABUL JAN, a romantic comedy.

  • Year
    2011
  • Runtime
    10 minutes
  • Country
    Afghanistan
  • Director
    Shahrbanoo Sadat
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