Under the Shadow

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.

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Under the Shadow was released in 2016 (FA original-language production), with a runtime of 84 minutes.