Under the Shadow
As bombs rain from the sky at the height of the Iran-Iraq War in 1988, the young mother Shideh and her daughter, Dorsa, take cover in their apartment block. When a missile hits their apartment building, a neighbour dies in mysterious circumstances. Following this, Dorsa’s behaviour becomes increasingly disturbed and Shideh is slowly drawn into a mania, in which she struggles to cling onto what is real and what is not. Searching for answers, Shideh learns from a superstitious neighbour that the cursed, unexploded missile might have brought with it Djinn – malevolent Middle-Eastern spirits that travel on the wind… Masterfully staged in the style of early Polanski films, the psychological horror-drama UNDER THE SHADOW caused a sensation at this year’s Sundance Festival.
- Genre: Horror
- Country, Year: UK, Jordan, Qatar, 2016
- Runtime: 84 Min
- Languages: Farsi
- Subtitles: English
- Director: Babak Anvari
- Cast: Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi, Ray Haratian
- Screenplay: Babak Anvari
- Cinematography: Kit Fraser
- Editor: Chris Barwell
- Music: Gavin Cullen, Will McGillivray
- Producers: Lucan Toh, Oliver Roskill, Emily Leo, Sanjay Shah, Nick Harbinson, Patrick Fischer, Duncan McWilliam, Khaled Haddad , Donal McCusker
- Production Company: Wigwam Films
- World Sales: The Festival Agency (TFA)
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