{
  "id": 17722649,
  "title": "Shahrbanoo Sadat and Jelena Maksimović Hit Back at Discrimination in Film Funding at Tokyo Festival Talk",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/02/shahrbanoo-sadat-and-jelena-maksimovic-hit-back-at-discrimination-in",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-11-02T01:35:45.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/festivals/shahrbanoo-sadat-hits-back-film-funding-discrimination-1236937057/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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,” […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}