In the late 1980s, fifteen year-old Qodrat lives in the streets of Kabul and sold 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 a Soviet orphanage. But in Kabul the political situation is changing. Qodrat and all the children want to defend their home.
Shahrbanoo Sadat is an Afghan, female writer and director, based in Kabul. She studied at Atelier Varan Kabul. Her first feature film Wolf and Sheep was developed with the Cannes Cinéfondation Residence in 2010. Only twenty years old at the time, she is the youngest ever selected. The film won the main award at Directors’ Fortnight 2016. "The Orphanage" and Wolf and Sheep are part of a planned pentalogy- five films based on an unpublished autobiography. The Orphanage was also presented at Directors’ Fortnight in 2019.