If you loved I Came By, try Under the Shadow

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Under the Shadow

2016 · dir. Babak Anvari

What they share

Both films are directed by Babak Anvari. If that's the register that drew you to I Came By, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Under the Shadow is

Bombed apartment tower, twilight. A single broken doll tumbles down the stairwell. A mother’s war-worn flat becomes a claustrophobic battleground when neighbors whisper that a cursed missile has loosed unseen things inside. Her six-year-old clings to an imaginary friend no one else can see. Babak Anvari folds Iranian New Wave dread into one suffocating Tehran staircase.

If you loved I Came By, try Under the Shadow

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What Under the Shadow is

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