Under the Shadow

The 2016 winner of 3 British Independent Film Awards including BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY and BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS is "a tightly controlled chiller that carries a whiff of mother-daughter horror classics such as "Poltergeist" and "The Exorcist" says the New York Post. After Shideh's building is hit by a missile during the 1988 Iran-Iraq War, a superstitious neighbor suggests that the missile was cursed and might be carrying malevolent Middle-Eastern spirits. She becomes convinced a supernatural force within the building is attempting to possess her daughter Dorsa, and she has no choice but to confront these forces if she is to save her daughter and herself.