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The Shelter

The Shelter

Le Refuge

Film

Directed by Talal Selhami

DramaHorror

Leila is a former concert pianist from Aleppo, which bore much of the brunt of the ghastly Syrian Civil War. Now living in exile in Paris, she works as a caregiver for Georges, a diplomat nearing the end of his life. Within the confines of his opulent apartment, filled with relics of colonial memory, Leila begins to experience ghostly visitations from her late husband and son. At first tender, these apparitions gradually take on a sinister form, blurring the lines between trauma and madness, memory and haunting. As the echo of distant bombs returns, the walls between Georges’s apartment and Leila’s lost home begin to collapse.

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  1. NeutraljoquarkyMar 15, 2026

    You think you know a hundred who are not.

    Why would they admit it? I imagine many of them have seen The Twilight Zone episode "The Shelter" (1961) or something like it.

  2. NeutralapocalypstyxMay 5, 2021

    I'm thinking of a new version of the Twilight Zone episode The Shelter, except it's one of these floating around and everyone's trying to break in, break it open, etc.