Iraqi psychothriller's stinging critique of fishbowl society

A carefully stitched interrogation of Iraqi agony, Ahmed Abd's 'The River's Shadow' combines Mesopotamian mythology and modern trauma to create a film that taps into a twitchy, paranoid national psyche.

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