Iran’s imprisoned girls reflect on their lives and crimes in the heartbreaking Sunless Shadows
“Is it better inside prison or out?” the filmmaker Mehrdad Oskouei asks one of his subjects. She isn’t entirely sure how to answer. Life behind bars certainly has its restrictions. But then, so did her life on the other side of them. Eventually, she lands on an admission: “I’m more at ease here”—which is to say, on…