WINNER – Best Director, IDFA 2019
Official Selection, MoMA Doc Fortnight 2020 – “An outstanding offering” ~ Richard Brody, New Yorker
Official Selection, True/False Film Festival 2020
Official Selection, CPH:DOX 2020
Critics Pick New York Times – HERE
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.
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.
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Read about the director, and his statement about this film HERE