Young film-maker finds love and laughter amid the tragedy in Afghanistan’s first romcom Rob Walker
There are few pavements in Kabul, so when Shahrbanoo Sadat steps out for her daily walk, she shares the roads with cars and tanks. Military helicopters swirl overhead, creating vast clouds of dust.
There are thousands of reasons why you shouldn’t walk around this city, she says, and most people don’t.
“It’s a crazy town and sometimes it is scary. But for me, I just love it. You never know what’s going to happen. It makes me feel alive”.
It’s that adrenaline rush that’s kept the 30-year-old film-maker rooted to a city while others, including her closest friends, have fled. An unlikely place, perhaps, to make her third film – billed as Afghanistan’s first romantic comedy.