Virtual Cinema

Sunless Shadows

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Available Friday,
April 2 – Thursday, April 8

NEW YORK TIMES CRITIC’S PICK!

Mehrdad Oskouei’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed STARLESS DREAMS (2016), SUNLESS SHADOWS takes another look at the lives of teenage girls in an Iranian juvenile detention center. But this time the focus is narrowed: each of the film’s principal subjects is serving time for the murder of a male family member. One by one, Oskouei invites them to go into a room alone, push the red button on the camera and address their accomplices or their victims. With this new confessional approach combined with the ever-deepening relationships he has with his subjects, Oskouei presents a picture of the disenfranchised in an aggressively male-dominated society and of the prison that is their shelter from it.

In Persian with English subtitles.

 

  • Runtime

    74 min

  • Release Year

    2019

  • Director

    Mehrdad Oskouei

  • Producer

    Mehrdad Oskouei

  • Country

    Iran, Norway