During the closing ceremony of “the 4th International Women’s Film Festival – Herat” held in Kabul, Afghanistan on 22 Oct. 2016 the winners of this edition of the festival were announced.
The short film “Mary Mother”directed by Sadam Wahidi from Afghanistan was awarded as the Best edit, by the international jury.
Mary Mother
Director: Sadam Wahidi, Afghan
Genre: Short Film
Date & Country of Production: 2016, Afghanistan
Language: Dari
Duration: 19 minutes
Synopsis: Mary and her two daughters live in a remote village of Afghanistan. Her only son and the young man of the family is serving in military in Kunduz province. One day she hears the news of fall of Kunduz province to the Taliban on radio, since the authorities have no news of her son, she decides to start her own journey to Kunduz.
Director’s Biography and Filmography
Sadam Wahidi was born at 1991 in Kabul and studied for his Bachelor’s degree in agriculture at Kabul University. At the age of 9, he started working at BBC Radio AEP (Afghan Educational Programs) as an actor and announcer in children’s programs. He directed his first experimental film (36 minute) at the age of 15. During school, he participated in many TV commercials. Since 2010, he has acted in two feature films and two TV series (Our Street and Sherin) and worked as assistant director and producer in “Our Street” TV series and assistant director in a fiction film: Ahwal-e-Darya film. “Mary Mother” is his second short film. The first was “You are not American (2014).
