# Under The Shadow (2016)

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**Original title**: *زیر سایه*
**Runtime**: 84 min
**Genres**: Drama, Horror, War
**Directed by**: Babak Anvari
**Written by**: Babak Anvari
**Starring**: Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi, Ray Haratian, Hamid Djavadan, Bijan Daneshmand

> *Fear will find you.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

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.

**Mood tags**: dread, slow-burn

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