Babak Anvari's Under the Shadow explores the horrors of living as a woman within a war-torn Tehran during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war. Ghouls educate on the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the power of having a flawed female protagonist in a tyrannical and oppressive regime.

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Terror in Tehran: Under the Shadow and the Politics of Horror

Iranian Revolution

Under The Shadow is a Babadook for War-Torn Iran

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