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If you didn’t know that Noora Niasari’s gripping domestic thriller was drawn from life, these poignant details give the film away.

<p>An emotional semi-autobiographical directorial debut has brought Noora Niasari fully to the film world’s attention. Alongside star actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi, they tell James Mottram that ...

You came to Australia from Tehran in Iran as a newborn and, at age five, lived in a women’s shelter with your mother. How much of that experience is in your new film, Shayda? It’s based on my ...

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.

Writer/director Noora Niasari does a fine job depicting the tight-rope that Shayda must walk to both care for her daughter and keep them both safe from her estranged abusive husband. Zar Amir Ebrahimi ...

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‘Shayda’ is a tribute to writer-director Noora Niasari’s own mother Zar Amir Ebrahimi plays an Iranian mother who flees Iran after filing for divorce from her abusive husband ...

Zar Amir Ebrahimi plays the title role in “Shayda,” Noora Niasari’s tender drama about a survivor of domestic abuse.

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.

Making her feature directorial debut, Noora Niasari adapts the real-life story of her own childhood and the mother who risked everything to secure their escape.

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 ...