The Orphanage (Parwareshgah)
Fortnight 2019, Feature film, 1h30
World premiere
World premiere
Synopsis
In the late 1980s, 15-year-old Qodrat lives in the streets of Kabul and sells cinema tickets on the black market. He is a big Bollywood fan and he daydreams himself into some of his favorite movie scenes. One day the police brings him to the Soviet orphanage. But in Kabul the political situation is changing. Qodrat and all the children want to defend their home.
Director
Shahrbanoo Sadat
Shahr Sadat is an Afghan, female writer and director, based in Kabul. She studied at Atelier Varan in Kabul. Her first feature film Wolf and Sheep was developed with the Cannes Cinéfondation Residence in 2010, Shahr - 20 years old at the time - the youngest ever selected. The film won the main award at Director’s Fortnight 2016. Her second feature film The Orphanage is also the second part of a pentalogy, five films based on an unpublished autobiography.
Hasibullah Rasooli
Masihullah Feraji
Qodratollah Qadiri
Sediqa Rasuli
Masihullah Feraji
Qodratollah Qadiri
Sediqa Rasuli
screenplay
Shahrbanoo Sadat
photography
Virginie Surdej
sound
Sigrid DPA Jensen, Anne Gry Friis Kristensen
editing
Alexandra Strauss
production
Adomeit Film
Husumgade 43, 4th
2200 Copenhagen – Danemark
T : +45 31418681
Katja.adomeit@gmail.com
www.adomeitfilm.com
coproduction
Adomeit Film UG (Allemagne)
La Fabrica Nocturna (France)
Samsa Film (Luxembourg)
Wolf Pictures (Afghanistan)
foreign sales
Luxbox
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75011 Paris – France
T: +33 6 58 82 25 20
festivals@luxboxfilms.com
www.luxboxfilms.com
distribution
Rouge Distribution
6 rue de Braque
75003 Paris – France
T: +33 9 72 55 96 09
emilie.djiane@rouge-distribution.com
www.rouge-distribution.com
publicist
France
Florence Narozny
T : +33 6 86 50 24 51
florence.narozny@wanadoo.fr
Clarisse André
T : +33 6 70 24 05 10
International
The PR Factory
Marie-France Dupagne
T : +33 7 85 83 58 61
T : +32 477 62 67 70
mariefrance@theprfactory.com
Cannes projection
May 18
15h00
Théâtre Croisette
May 19
11h30
Cinéma Les Arcades / Salle 1
21h30
Studio 13
