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Zalava [Subtitled] [Played as part of the MSPIFF41 Film Festival running May 5-19; for more information, log on to MSPfilm.org for full schedule.] When the allegedly demonically possessed daughter (Mahsa Hejazi) of a paranoid Kurdish villager (Shahou Rostami) in Iran accidentally falls to her death in 1978 and the scared, riled-up, superstitious, sleepwalking-prone people believe there is a demon in the village in Arsalan Amiri's creative, fascinating, award-winning, suspenseful, tense, well-paced, unpredictable, 93-minute, 2021 thriller, a skeptical gendarmerie sergeant (Navid Pourfaraj) investigates the situation after an exorcising shaman (Pouria Rahimi Sam) is brought in to catch the invisible demon in a jar and when a fearful, well-meaning sergeant aide (Baset Rezaei) places the jar in the bag of an unsuspecting physician (Hoda Zeinolabedin), her life and others may be endangered.
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