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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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