Writer/Director Noora Niasari and actor Osamah Sami on the Persian influences of festival favourite Shayda.
… powerful and sometimes even harrowing stuff, and well-made and acted. It’s definitely worth seeing.
Selected for Sundance, where it picked up the World Cinema Audience Award [Drama], Iranian-Australian writer/director Noora Niasari's film stars Iranian actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi (Holy Spider), Leah Purcell, Osamah Sami,