About Alka Sadat:

Sadat is an award-winning Afghan documentary ﬁlmmaker whose ﬁlms explore social issues and injustices,
Her childhood in a climate of oppression under Taliban rule, Sadat's journey as a filmmaker began with an act of defiance.
Her mother, risking severe consequences, secretly educated Sadat and her sisters at home, planting the seeds of resistance that would later flourish in Sadat's work.

When the Taliban regime was abolished,
She founded Roya Film House (RFH), in 2003 with her sister Roya Sadat an independent Afghan ﬁlm company with a focus on human rights,
2003 She worked as the dress designer on the ﬁlm Three Dots.!

Sadat’s ﬁrst documentary ﬁlm, First Number, 2006 was awarded the Afghan Peace Prize.

She made other short ﬁlms, We Are Post-modernist, Ma By For You, and 1,2,3?
1,2,3?, won awards at the International Trevignano Film Festival in Italy, the Bahrain Human Rights International Film Festival, and the International Almaty Film Festival in Kazakhstan.

in 2008 she directed Half Value Life, the film received six festival awards:
International Young Talent Competition — Generation DOK,
(2009); Public Liberties & Human Rights Award, Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival; and
First Place, Documentaries, Women’s Voices Now Film Festival, Los Angeles.
Best Film, Egypt Film Festival; Best Film, Bilder vom Film Festival, Germany
Best Director, Kabul International Film Festival; Afghanistan Film Festival;

2008 to 2009 Sadat after she made a documentary ﬁlm titled A Woman Sings in the Desert,
She won a scholarship from Fabrica in Italy While studying ﬁlmmaking in Italy in 2009, she made a ﬁlm in Treviso about the Iranian singer Mohsen Namjoo. She started working for Colors magazine (based in Italy) in 2010 and made a short documentary, Kabul Sea.

2014 Sadat made the most courageous documentary in The most dangerous village around Kabul from the commandos on the front line of the fight against the Taliban. (Afghanistan Night Stories) award win (2016 Remi Award (Best of Category), Remi Special Jury Awards, from 49th Annual Worldfest-‐‑Houston)The world premiere of the documentary was at the IDFA festival and was accompanied by leaving the country and
losing one of the characters of his film During the shooting He was killed by the Taliban, which caused Alka to suffer severe depression

In her career, he has other films such as Eagle 4 for Tolo TV,
In 2011, Sadat’s long-form documentary, After 35 Years, captured the struggles due to the lack of family law in the Afghan judicial system. The following year,

She made several films for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan’s “Afghanistan: Ten Years On” documentary series, which explored efforts by UN agencies and the international community to help Afghanistan rebuild the country and its institutions: The Elimination of Violence Against Children; and The Elimination of Violence Against Police...

in 2015 she moved to the Netherlands, and in 2016-2017 she directed a documentary film for Omrop Fryslân TV called 'Fleur op 'e Flecht'
broadcast on NPO 2 & Omrop Fryslân

she worked as a script supervisor for "Sima's Song" directed by Roya Sadat in 2023 and directed a short documentary film called "I SPIT MYSELF ONTO A PAGE " she worked as an editor for a Documentary TV serial

Awards

2022: Emmeline Pankhurst Lifetime Achievements Awards

the Republic of Women has selected Alka Sadat for the IWD Award

2016: Remi Award (Best of Category), Remi Special Jury Awards, from 49th Annual Worldfest-‐‑Houston

(Afghanistan Night Stories)

2015 Official Selection Idfa Film Festival

2011: Public Liberties & Human Rights Award, Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival (Half Value Life)

2011: First Place, Documentaries, Women’s Voices Now Film Festival, Los Angeles (Half Value Life)

2011: Human Rights Film Festival in Kabul (Half Value Life)

2009: Best Film, Bilder vom Film Festival, Germany (Half Value Life)

2009: Best Film, Egypt Film Festival (Half Value Life)

2009: Best Director, Kabul Film Festival (A Woman Sings in the Desert)

2008: Best Director, Kabul International Film Festival (Half Value Life)

2008: International Young Talent Competition — Generation DOK,

Afghanistan Film Festival (Half Value Life)

2008: Best Film, Bahrain Human Rights International Film Festival (1,2,3?)

2007: Best Film, International Trevignano Film Festival, Italy (1,2,3?)

2006: Peace Prize, Afghan Civil Society Organisations (First Number)

2006: Best Film, International Almaty Film Festival, Kazakhstan (1,2,3?)

2006: Best Camera Work, Kodakan Khiban Film Festival (We Are Post-modernist)

2006: Best Camera Work, Kabul Film Festival (We Are Post-modernist)!

Directed/ write, Camera & Edit

Half Value Life,

Afghanistan Night Stories

A Woman Sings in the Desert

1,2,3?,

We Are Post-modernist

After 35 Years

Ma By For You,

'Fleur op 'e Flecht'

I SPIT MYSELF ONTO A PAGE

singer Mohsen Namjoo

Kabul Sea

Beginning of Eagle 4

Eyewitness

When Mojgan was Sohrab

2012 to 2013, Sadat made several for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan’s “Afghanistan: Ten Years On” documentary series, which explored efforts by UN agencies and the international community to help Afghanistan rebuild the country and its institutions: The Elimination of Violence Against Women; The Elimination of Violence Against Children; and The Elimination of Violence Against Police. in 2015 she moved to Netherlands, in 2016-

Script supervisor

Sima's Song

Dress designer

Three Dots