Foreign Cinema Night
SHAYDA
Wednesday, April 24th at 7:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
Introduction by series programmer Sahib Singh Bakshi
The feature debut from
Australian-Iranian director Noora Niasari — inspired by her own
childhood — won the Audience Award at the 2023 Sundance Film
Festival. Shayda (Zar Amir
Ebrahimi, Holy Spider),
a brave Iranian mother, finds refuge in an Australian women’s shelter with her
six-year-old daughter. Over Persian New Year, they take solace in Nowruz
rituals and new beginnings, but when her estranged husband re-enters their
lives, Shayda’s path to freedom is jeopardized. (Australia, 2023, 117 mins, English & Persian | Dir. Noora
Niasari)