Afghanistan/Netherlands

Alka Sadat is an award-winning Afghan documentary filmmaker whose films explore social issues and injustices in her native country, most notably the challenges faced by women and children. Sadat founded the Roya Film House (RFH), an independent Afghan film company with a focus on human rights, and coordinated the first Afghanistan International Women’s Film Festival In 2013.!Born in Herat, Afghanistan, in 1988, Sadat was a young child when the Taliban came to power. — read more