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Shayda (2023)
Directed by Noora Niasari
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.
Length 118 minutes
Actors
Zahra Amir Ebrahimi | Selina Zahednia | Leah Purcell | Jillian Nguyen | Osamah Sami | Mojean Aria | Rina Mousavi | Lucinda Armstrong Hall | Bev Killick | Jack Bonser | Eve Morey | Alanna Ha Quach | Avina Ha Quach | Luka Sero | Shayan Askari | Zohreh Farid | Tina Khabazian | Asal Daram | Catherine Glavicic | Nicole Gulasekharam | Jerome Meyer | Sepideh Fallah | Ghazal Ghazanfari | Oona lux Nelson-Moore | Hannah Moore | Christopher Dimattina | Liam McCarthy | Tiana Hogben | Fariborz Pakzamir | Marjan Mesbahi | Kamran Motamedi | Nasibeh Irani | Shaliz Hosseini | Aban Qajarnia | Rayan Aridi | Behrouz Harvasi | Sarah Harvasi | Mustafa Amiri | Aurnab As-Saber | Faouzi Daghistani | Yazdaneh Galt | Elham Baghbani | Negin Emamgholi | Mohsen Panahi Erdi | Sabrina Sanavandi | Ehsan Bayatfar | Zac Garmsiri | Nafiseh Hamidi | Mohsen Hashemnejad | Porsha Ghorbanpour | Forouzan Ghorbanpour | Phillip McInnes | Iopu Auva'a | Meleah Smedley | Michael Robins | Michael Robins | Silas James