Sahraa Karimi | |
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![]() Sahraa Karimi in 2019 | |
Born | [1] | 20 April 1981
Nationality | Afghan |
Occupation(s) | Film director, Screenwriter, Film editor, Women rights activist |
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Height | 170 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]