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Shayda

Shayda

A love letter to mothers and daughters everywhere

6.8 (25)2023-09-281h 58m
Drama

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.

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$233,971
Production
Dirty Films, Screen Australia, Origma 45, VicScreen, MIFF Premiere Fund, HanWay Films, The 51 Fund, Parandeh Pictures

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Sherwin Akbarzadeh

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Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots

April 23, 2023

7/10

**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 Zahed…