Shayda
A love letter to mothers and daughters everywhere
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.
- 6.7
- 2023
- Released
- 1h 58m
Zar Amir Ebrahimi
Shayda
Selina Zahednia
Mona
Leah Purcell
Joyce
Jillian Nguyen
Vi
Osamah Sami
Hossein
Mojean Aria
Farhad
Rina Mousavi
Elly
Lucinda Armstrong Hall
ReneeBev Killick
CathyAlanna Ha Quach
JillAvina Ha Quach
JennyLuka Sero
TobiasShayan Askari
ParvizZohreh Farid
MaryamTina Khabazian
Mrs BagheriAsal Daram
Roya
Catherine Glavicic
Miranda
Nicole Gulasekharam
Deb
Jerome Meyer
PierreSepideh Fallah
Ghazal Ghazanfari
Oona lux Nelson-Moore
Baby DylanHannah Moore
AnnabelleChristopher Dimattina
Liam McCarthy
Tiana Hogben
Female WaiterFariborz Pakzamir
Stall OwnerMarjan Mesbahi
ShopkeeperKamran Motamedi
Iranian HusbandNasibeh Irani
Iranian MotherShaliz Hosseini
Iranian WifeAban Qajarnia
Iranian SonRayan Aridi
DrummerBehrouz Harvasi
Fire JumperSarah Harvasi
Fire JumperMustafa Amiri
Aurnab As-Saber
Faouzi Daghistani
Yazdaneh Galt
Elham Baghbani
Negin Emamgholi
Mohsen Panahi Erdi
Mr. BagheriSabrina Sanavandi
BaharZac Garmsiri
Nafiseh Hamidi
Mohsen Hashemnejad
Porsha Ghorbanpour
Forouzan Ghorbanpour
Phillip McInnes
Police OfficerMeleah Smedley
Michael Robins
Michael Robins
Silas James
Released
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$233,971.00
- #shelter
- #divorce
- #mother daughter relationship
- #iranian new year
Reviews
**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.