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Shayda (2023)
Directed by Noora Niasari
“A love letter to mothers and daughters everywhere”
Drama · 1h 58m
Shayda, a young Iranian woman living in Australia, finds refuge in a women’s shelter with her 6-year-old daughter, Mona. Having fled her husband, Hossein, and filed for divorce, Shayda struggles to maintain normalcy for Mona. Buoyed by the approach of Nowruz, she tries to forge a fresh start with new and unfettered freedoms. But when a judge grants Hossein visitation rights, he reenters their life, stoking Shayda’s fear that he’ll attempt to take Mona back to Iran.
Cast
Zar Amir Ebrahimi
Leah Purcell
Jillian Nguyen
Osamah Sami
Mojean Aria
Rina Mousavi
Lucinda Armstrong Hall
Jack Bonser
Crew
- Director
- Noora Niasari
- Writer
- Noora Niasari
- Director of Photography
- Sherwin Akbarzadeh
- Editor
- Elika Rezaee
- Producer
- Vincent Sheehan, Noora Niasari
Details
- Release date
- 2023-09-28
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- FA
- Spoken languages
- Persian, English
- Countries
- Australia, United Kingdom
- Production
- Dirty Films, Screen Australia, Origma 45, VicScreen, MIFF Premiere Fund, HanWay Films, The 51 Fund, Parandeh Pictures
- Box office
- $233,971