Nanny

Nanny (2022) is a psychological horror drama you can watch online on iFILM. Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant in New York, takes a job caring for the child of a wealthy Upper East Side couple, saving to bring her own son to America.

The apartment is immaculate, the employers are polite in the way that costs them nothing, and the little girl bonds with Aisha faster than with her own parents. Water keeps flooding her sleep — visions drawn from West African myth, the spirit Mami Wata and the spider Anansi. As the unpaid hours pile up, something colder than exhaustion begins to rise in her. Anna Diop carries the film, with Michelle Monaghan and Leslie Uggams.

Nikyatu Jusu's feature debut claimed the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, and it earns that with restraint rather than jump scares. The real dread is dislocation: a mother an ocean away from her child, dissolving inside someone else's household. Stream Nanny (2022) online on iFILM.