Noora Niasari was editing “Shayda” when the world changed — again — for Iranians. It was September 2022, and Mahsa Amini had just died in police custody, igniting the “Woman, Life ...

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 ...

The Sundance award-winning film, 'Shayda,' which marks Noora Niasari’s feature directorial debut, has been acquired by Sony Pictures Classics.

A 5-year-old Iranian child and her mother find refuge in an Australian women’s shelter while on the run from an abusive ex in Noora Niasari’s Shayda. It’s a very personal story for Niasari ...

Shayda, the debut feature by Tehran-born, Australia-based Noora Niasari, tells a deeply moving story based on the director's own childhood experience of fleeing domestic violence with her mother ...

Noora Niasari (Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute) Keiran Watson-Bonnice. Amini’s death sparked a revolution in Iran, now coined the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, ...

Panelists: Noora Niasari (director) First Screening: September 13, 2:30 p.m. EST, TIFF Bell Lightbox. Key Quote: ““ Shayda is a love letter to mothers and daughters.

Noora Niasari is a 30-something Australian filmmaker whose roots are in Iran. “When I was 5 years old,” she writes in a statement accompanying the film, “my first experience of freedom was inside an ...

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 ...

Made with a striking sensitivity to mood and moment, “Shayda” marks a strong debut for Iranian Australian writer-director Noora Niasari, who mines her own experience and that of her mother for ...

Iranian-Australian filmmaker Noora Niasari (Waterfall, 17 Years and a Day) has been signed on to adapt and direct Mahsa Rahmani Nobel’s novel Raya.The historical fiction book is about Princess ...

Sister to Adapt ‘Raya,’ Sets Iranian-Australian Filmmaker Noora Niasari to Direct. The film will be based on the historical fiction novel about Princess Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari by Mahsa ...