Shahrbanoo Sadat and Jelena Maksimović Hit Back at Discrimination in Film Funding at Tokyo Festival Talk

Shahrbanoo Sadat and Jelena Maksimović Hit Back at Discrimination in Film Funding at Tokyo Festival Talk hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Nov 1, 2026 5:35pm PT Shahrbanoo Sadat and Jelena Maksimović Hit Back at Discrimination in Film Funding at Tokyo Festival Talk By Kambole Campbell Plus Icon Kambole Campbell Latest Japan’s New 2027 Anime Award Should Put Creators in the Spotlight, Industry Leaders Say at Tokyo Market 2 days ago Taiwanese Feature ‘Uncle’ Wins Top Prize at Tokyo Gap-Financing Market Awards 3 days ago Aliens, Dinosaurs and a Father’s Death: ‘Kefi’ Director Saito Kisin Brings a Surreal Take on Grief to Tokyo 4 days ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments A lack of funding, and ignorance in the institutions that control it, keeps women at an inherent disadvantage in the film industry, Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat said at a Tokyo International Film Festival talk on the future of women’s cinema. “The discrimination did not start at the festival, but it started at the development level,” said Sadat, who sat on this year’s Venice competition jury, reflecting on the lackluster ratio of films by women selected for competition.

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Sadat, now based in Germany, saw her latest feature “No Good Men” open the 76th Berlinale before screening in Tokyo. Film scholar and presenter Takasaki Ikuko moderated.

The session followed other reflections on women’s careers in film at the festival, both in its Women’s Empowerment section and at an animation symposium held earlier the same day on the past, present and future of four women working as directors in the anime industry. The panel set out to discuss how women and feminism are presented in Sadat’s and Maksimović’s films and beyond, but it turned mostly to the practical, financial barriers standing in the way of more films directed by women.

Both filmmakers said getting the means to make a film often requires a certain conformity. “It was also like that back in Yugoslavia,” Maksimović said, “even though it was a very progressive country there were a lot more male directors […] but things started changing in the Balkans after the Yugoslav Wars… not because of that, but because we moved into more progressive times.” There are external factors too, such as where the money for film funds comes from.

Maksimović said Film Center Serbia “worked decently” for a few years, until the outgoing government cut off its funding entirely in retaliation for filmmakers’ frequent support of the student anti-corruption protests. The student-led movement, which grew out of protests over the deadly 2024 collapse of a train station canopy in Novi Sad, won Serbia’s snap parliamentary election on Oct.

Aleksandar Vučić had resigned as president in September. “Luckily, a few days ago the students won.

We’re very happy at the moment, but there’s a huge fight in front of us,” Maksimović said, adding that the damage done by the previous regime would take time to repair. “Even when the film center worked normally we had a difficult time financing our films, the amount of money for Serbian films is very small and it’s hard to find co-production countries,” she said.

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