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Sunless Shadows
Directed by
Mehrdad Oskouei
2020
74m
Documentary
7.3
100%
6.0
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In an Iranian juvenile detention center, a group of adolescent girls are serving time for having murdered their father, husband or another male family member.
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Cast of Sunless Shadows
Mehrdad Oskouei
Director / Writer / Producer
Carsten Aanonsen
Producer
Siavash Jamali
Executive Producer
Mehdi Azadi
Director Of Photography
Amir Adibparvar
Editor
Afshin Azizi
Original Music Composer
Parsa Karimi
Sound
Mahmud Khorsand
Sound Designer
Sunless Shadows Ratings & Reviews
Reverse Shot
Susannah Gruder
Oskoueis compassion, and even admiration for these women is palpablehe and his cinematographer Mehdi Azadi capture them with care and respect, highlighting their thoughtfulness, gentleness, and intelligence.
Film Inquiry
Soham Gadre
Oskouei allows the women to treat his camera as a confessional, positioning his film as a map between them and their own souls.
Backseat Mafia
Rob Aldam
A powerful documentary which shines a light on the plight of girls growing up in a traditional society where freedom is only possible through the whims of men.
KDHX (St. Louis)
Diane Carson
With unobtrusive direction and restrained judgment (though the inhumane inequities are clear), Sunless Shadows offers unparalleled, poignant insight into Iranian society.
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
What [Oskouei] mostly captures is camaraderie and commiseration, the solace these girls have found in each other's company, even as they reckon with the events that landed them there.
New York Times
Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
A startling, raw confrontation with Iran's patriarchy.
Slant Magazine
Diego Semerene
Mehrdad Oskouei's documentary is striking for the way its subjects describe horrific forms of violence in the plainest of language.
Film Inquiry
Musanna Ahmed
Sunless Shadows is such a brilliant documentary because it treats the subject matter with the gravitas it needs. To accomplish this, Oskouei uses an intimate observational lens and his excellent relationship with the subjects.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Oskouei's documentary presents an agonizing view of patriarchal power in public and private life, law and custom alike.
Variety
Guy Lodge
"Sunless Shadows" never gives off the impression of extracting feelings from its subjects: Rather, it receptively gives them a platform they've hitherto been denied.
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