Teeming with intrigue, both political and personal, this family drama is a tightly woven web that will no doubt be a delight to untangle.
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,
In the spirit of the French New Wave, enterprising film producers have turned the limitations of time, money, scale and resources into a virtue, greenlighting 5 distinct new Australian films
"...an immensely charming offering, but falls short of being a new classic."
Ali's Wedding is based on the real life experiences of co-writer and star Osamah Sami, whose arranged marriage fell apart after two hours. To help him bring his story to
That headline isn't entirely accurate, but when a pun that good comes along you grab it with both hands and don't let go.