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 ...

Noora Niasari’s delicately moving “ Shayda ” puts the viewer in the shoes of an Iranian woman in Australia living in a women’s shelter with her 6-year-old daughter. The violence happens before we ...

Hope and fear vie for prominence throughout Noora Niasari’s debut feature “Shayda,” in which Zar Amir Ebrahimi (“Holy Spider”) enthralls as a Persian mother living in Australia who takes refuge in a ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jane Zhang/Madman Entertainment Australian cinema has often struggled to authentically portray the cultural lives of Middle ...

Zar Amir Ebrahimi of 'Holy Spider' delivers a quietly commanding performance as a brave domestic violence survivor who demands a life on her own terms. Still, there is hope for Shayda (the terrific ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...