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Sahraa Karimi

Sahraa Karimi
Sahraa Karimi in 2019
Born (1981-04-20) 20 April 1981 (age 43)[1]
Tehran, Iran[2]
NationalityAfghan
Occupation(s)Film director, Screenwriter, Film editor, Women rights activist
Known for
  • First female general director of Afghan Film in 2019
  • Directing Hava, Maryam, Ayesha (2019)
Height170 cm (5 ft 7 in)

Sahraa Karimi (20 April 1981)[3][4] is an Afghan film director who was the first female chairperson of the Afghan Film Organization (Afghan Film).[5][6] She has directed 30 short films, 3 documentary films and one fiction film Hava, Maryam, Ayesha which had the world premier at the 76th Venice Film Festival. Prior to the fall of Kabul to the hands of the Taliban, she was the first and, as of 2021, only woman to be directing Afghanistan's film entity.[5][7][8][9]

  1. ^ "Sahraa Karimi CV" (PDF). ALEF. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 June 2024.
  2. ^ "Sahraa Karimi". Asia Peace Film Festival. Archived from the original on 30 January 2021. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  3. ^ Lismore Regional Gallery (19 March – 23 April 2011). "The Force of Forgetting" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 March 2023.
  4. ^ Sahra, Karimi. "Sahra Karimi CV" (PDF). alefjo.com. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 June 2024. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  5. ^ a b Atakpal, Haseba (19 May 2019). "Sahraa Karimi To Lead Afghan Film As First Female Chairperson". TOLOnews. Archived from the original on 4 September 2019. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  6. ^ Vourlias, Christopher (30 August 2019). "Filmmaker Sahraa Karimi Defies Odds With Kabul-Set Drama 'Hava, Maryam, Ayesha'". Variety. Archived from the original on 17 August 2021. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  7. ^ Hamid, Tamim (19 May 2019). "Angelina Jolie Describes Sahraa Karimi's Appointment As Historic". TOLOnews. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  8. ^ Mehmood, Arshad (21 May 2019). "Exclusive: Afghanistan Appoints Woman to Head State-run Film Company". The Media Line. Archived from the original on 15 August 2021. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  9. ^ Welle, Deutsche. "Escape from Kabul: Afghan director Sahraa Karimi recounts her experience". Frontline. Archived from the original on 25 August 2021. Retrieved 24 August 2021.

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