Under the Shadow gets its UK release 30 September.
A djinn begins to haunt the family; resulting in supernatural scares which have already won over audiences at Sundance and SXSW, subtly manipulating the horror genre to express the terrors of real world conflicts.
The film marks the directorial debut of Iranian-born Babak Anvari; focusing on a mother and daughter left to fend for themselves in ’80s Tehran after their father is conscripted into military service.
With life already a terror for the family: the air raid sirens a constant din, the threat of persecution an ever-present shadow over their lives, events suddenly take a more sinister turn.