Zalava | TIFF 2021 The award for the most intriguing one-off at the Toronto International Film Festival goes to Zalava, the debut feature by Iranian Kurdish director Arsalan Amiri. He has mashed together a story of demonic possession and romance with …

This excellent Iranian chiller does for jam jars what James Wan‘s The Invisible Man did for negative space. It takes an object or location of absolute mundanity, and twists it into something that potentially holds all manner of horrors. Debut director Arsalan Amiri …

Fantastic Fest: An ambiguous threat stalks a 1978 Iranian community where the scariest thing is an invisible force kept in a jar. The scariest part about writer/director Arsalan Amiri’s Iranian Revolution horror movie “Zalava” is an invisible, potentially demonic force …