Berlin Opener ‘No Good Men’ Director Shahrbanoo Sadat’ on Making Afghanistan’s First Film Featuring an Onscreen Kiss (And a Vibrator)

Mădălin Mihai

Shahrbanoo Sadat’s “ No Good Men ,” which opens the Berlin Film Festival , mixes romance, politics and humor in ways that Afghan cinema has never done before. It’s the tale of a camerawoman at a Kabul TV station who — while struggling to retain custody of her 3-year-old son after leaving her unfaithful husband — becomes romantically entangled with the station’s star male journalist just before the 2021 fall of Kabul to the Taliban. The Afghan filmmaker’s previous two films, 2016’s ”Wolf and

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