Shahrbanoo (called Shahr by friends) wants to tell a completely different story about Afghanistan from the one you are used to hearing.  

Wolf and Sheep will be this - a creative and poetic portrait of the rural community where Shahr grew up. A place where children must work all day but still have a childhood. A place where a wolf wanders around on two legs. Wolf and Sheep will be a film that mixes the realist with the magic in an experimental way.

Wolf and Sheep will be the first art-house film by a female director in Afghan cinema - EVER! 

Moreover, the film will be a close up of an Afghan society from the point of view of a young female filmmaker. This film is very important for recreating Afghan film culture.

But without your support this film will not happen - so please browse through the amazing rewards and choose your way of support. Thank you!


Earlier this year in May/June we spent two weeks in Bamyan, central Afghanistan, casting 800 children.  Shahr decided to cast most of the children from one village Ali Ahmad, so that the children know each other. Ali Ahmad is a small village in central Afghanistan made up around 20 houses.

THE TEAM

To shoot in a country like Afghanistan is not easy, because the future and present situation of the country is is very unclear and dangerous. 

There is no existing film industry because almost everyone who knows something about film leaves the country because they couldn't see a future for it. Now they live in refugee camps all around the world. Therefore we need to mix our crew with international professionals and Afghan crew, which means we need a stable security set-up. We will also be shooting in a very remote place in Central Afghanistan, which means all crew, equipment and trailers need to be transported there.

If you support this film you are not only supporting this one project, but you are helping build an entire film-culture with independent movies in a country where there have never been art house films, and where the people are just beginning to discover their ability to tell their own story. 

Security is a big factor here. We had to postpone the shooting once already because the situation in Afghanistan was too intense and risky to be able to go there with an international crew and shoot.

We are now in contact with one of the best security companies in Denmark about having them as security at the shoot.

There is also mining danger because we will shoot most of the film in the mountains. For this reason we are in contact with international mine cleaning companies in Kabul, and have received maps of the area with the mines marked out. We are also discussing taking the entire crew on workshop about how to handle mine-areas.