Biographies: Sahraa Karimi - Writer

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Sahraa Karimi is an Afghan film director and the first woman to head the Afghan Film Organization. She is the first and only woman in Afghanistan to hold a doctorate in cinema and filmmaking. A short film she made during her time at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava won the award for Best Short Fiction Film at the Sun in a Net Awards (the top film awards in Slovakia). Her works include Hava, Maryam, Ayesha.