Sahraa Karimi

Sahraa Karimi (or Sughra Karimi; born 20 April 1981) is an Afghan film director who was the first female chairperson of the Afghan Film Organization (also known as Afghan Film). She has directed 30 short films, 3 documentary films and one fiction film Hava, Maryam, Ayesha which had its world premier at the 76th Venice Film Festival. Prior to the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, she was the first and, as of 2021, only woman to be directing Afghanistan's film entity.