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28/09/2023 Drama 1h 58m
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A love letter to mothers and daughters everywhere

Overview

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.

  1. Noora Niasari

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Zar Amir Ebrahimi

    Shayda

  2. Selina Zahednia

    Mona

  3. Leah Purcell

    Joyce

  4. Jillian Nguyen

    Vi

  5. Osamah Sami

    Hossein

  6. Mojean Aria

    Farhad

  7. Rina Mousavi

    Elly

  8. Lucinda Armstrong Hall

    Renee

  9. Bev Killick

    Cathy

  10. View more

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Reviews

A review by Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots
Written by Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots on 2023-04-23
**By: Louisa Moore / www.ScreenZealots.com**

The tenacity of a mother’s love provides the strong foundation for writer / director Noora Niasari‘s “Shayda,” a harrowing portrait of an Iranian woman who is doing her best to make the most of a terrible situation. This intimate story is one of female empowerment and endurance in a cultural system that often treats females as second class citizens.

Shayda (Zar Amir-Ebrahimi) is a young mother who, with her 6-year-old daughter Mona (Selina Zahednia) has fled her horribly abusive husband Hossein (Osamah Sami) and moved into a women’s ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Persian

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$233,971.00

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