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This screening was followed by a pre-recorded Q&A with director Mehrdad Oskouei and executive producer Siavash Jamali. Hosted by journalist Carol Nahra.

Filled with remarkably intimate scenes, Sunless Shadows focuses on a juvenile detention centre in Tehran, where a group of young women talk together, share meals and collectively care for a baby, finding community within their confinement. They are all serving sentences for the murder of a male family member.