Under the Shadow: Tangible story of horour and war in Iran

Babak Anvari is an Iranian-born, award-winning filmmaker based in London. In 2012, Anvari was selected as one of the eight rising stars in film and media at Cristal Festival Europes Young Directors Forum. His short film Two & Two was nominated for a BAFTA in 2012. Following in the acclaim of Persian-language hit A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night - and drawing from the DNA of The Babadook - this standout debut feature from Babak Anvari offers a novel take on time-honoured horror scares, wrapped in a subversively feminist critique of Iranian sexism. It is post-revolution Tehran in the late 1980s. Shideh is blacklisted from medical school due to her past political activities. As the calamities of war close in around her, she finds herself isolated with her daughter, Dorsa, whose behaviour becomes increasingly strange after an unexploded missile hits their apartment block. Shideh believes the bomb has brought djinn - Middle Eastern spirits that travel on the wind - into their home, and now she must fight these supernatural forces to save herself and her daughter. In an interview with SBS Persian, Babak speaks about his first feature film that is screening at Melbourne International Film Festival.

بابک انوری نویسنده و کارگردان فیلم سینمایی زیر سایه Source: SBS Persian