Iran. 2016. 84 mins. Part of Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Fest.
Tuesday, October 29 at 9:00 PM at the Michigan.
Set in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war, this movie is celebrated as a meditation on the fallout of the Iranian Revolution from a feminine perspective. A woman and her daughter hunker down in their Tehran apartment during the Iraqi bombardment. Did the missile that struck their building bring a jinn into their lives? Jump scares, demonic kids, revolutionary misogyny, mother-daughter and husband-wife tension, and violence against furniture as a mom fights to save her child. In Persian with English subtitles.
Dir: Babak Anvari