Zar Amir Ebrahimi as Shayda and and Selina Zahednia as Mona in SHAYDA Photo credit: Jane Zhang. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics. Shayda (Zar Amir Ebrahimi) flees her abusive husband in Iran, along ...

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This stirring film from Noora Niasari follows an Iranian woman and her daughter living in a women’s shelter in Australia. By Natalia Winkelman When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...

Shayda (Zar Amir-Ebrahimi) is a young Iranian mother living in Australia in 1995 with her 6-year-old daughter, Mona (Selina Zahednia). She fled to a women’s shelter and filed for divorce from her ...

Danger is never very far away in Noora Niasari’s confident debut, a deeply personal tribute to a generation torn between tradition and modernity. Focusing on the title character, Shayda hangs on a ...

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Cate Blanchett is one of the executive producers of a debut feature starring Zar Amir Ebrahimi, who toplined ‘Holy Spider.’ By Sheri Linden Senior Copy Editor/Film Critic Early scenes are thick with ...

“Shayda” follows a mother and daughter living in a women’s shelter. The mother — Shayda herself, played by the lauded Zar Amir Ebrahimi — is in the throes of a turbulent divorce from her abusive ...

Australian cinema has often struggled to authentically portray the cultural lives of Middle Eastern Australians. Stereotypical stories frequently sidestep the intricacies of social bonds, as well as ...

Making her feature debut, writer-director Noora Niasari has crafted a gripping drama about one Iranian woman’s struggle to extricate herself from her husband — an ordeal that could also mean losing ...