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His House
Why this pick
Like Under the Shadow, it turns a family home into a pressure chamber where supernatural fear is inseparable from displacement, guilt, and the violence of recent conflict.
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MOVIE2016 1h 24m GBR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Amidst the terrors of war-torn post-revolutionary Tehran in the 1980s, former medical student Shideh is barred from resuming her studies because of her involvement with student leftist groups. Upon returning home, she gets rid of most of her old medical textbooks, but keeps Arthur Guyton#Textbook of medical physiology given to her by her deceased mother. The war intensifying, Shideh elects to stay in the city with her daughter Dorsa despite the protests of her husband Iraj, a doctor who is called by the military and assigned to an area of heavy fighting. Iraj wants Shideh to stay with his parents in a safer part of the country, but Shideh refuses. Dorsa is upset to see her father go, and Iraj promises her that her favorite doll, Kimia, will protect her.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Narges Rashidi
Shideh
Ray Haratian
Mr. Ebrahimi
Nabil Koni
Mr. Bijari
Bobby Naderi
Iraj
Bijan Daneshmand
Director
Behi Djanati Atai
Pargol
Arash Marandi
Dr. Reza
Sajjad Delafrooz
Secretary