

Shayda
A love letter to mothers and daughters everywhere
Shayda, a young Iranian woman living in Australia, finds refuge in a women’s shelter with her 6-year-old daughter, Mona. Having fled her husband, Hossein, and filed for divorce, Shayda struggles to maintain normalcy for Mona. Buoyed by the approach of Nowruz, she tries to forge a fresh start with new and unfettered freedoms. But when a judge grants Hossein visitation rights, he reenters their life, stoking Shayda’s fear that he’ll attempt to take Mona back to Iran.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $234K
- Language
- Persian
- shelter
- divorce
- mother daughter relationship
- iranian new year
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereSundance Film Festival19 Jan 2023
- Theatrical (limited)PG-131 Dec 2023
- Digital / OTTPG-137 May 2024
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1519 Jul 2024
AustraliaAU
- PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival3 Aug 2023
- PremiereCinefestOz30 Aug 2023
- PremiereDarwin International Film Festival14 Sept 2023
- TheatricalM28 Sept 2023
CanadaCA
- PremiereToronto International Film Festival7 Sept 2023
GreeceGR
- Theatrical12 Oct 2023
Hong KongHK
- PremiereHong Kong International Film Festival2 Apr 2024
IndonesiaID
- PremiereJakarta World Cinema Week18 Nov 2023
- PremiereJogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival28 Nov 2023
- Theatrical (limited)8 Mar 2024
- Theatrical20 Mar 2024
ItalyIT
- Theatrical10 Jul 2025
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical (limited)1228 Sept 2023
South KoreaKR
- PremiereBusan International Film Festival8 Oct 2023
SpainES
- Theatrical1628 Jun 2024
SwitzerlandCH
- PremiereLocarno International Film Festival12 Aug 2023
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Shayda was released on 28 September 2023.
Audience reviews
1- L7/10
Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots
4/23/2023
**By: Louisa Moore / www.ScreenZealots.com** The tenacity of a mother’s love provides the strong foundation for writer / director Noora Niasari‘s “Shayda,” a harrowing portrait of an Iranian woman who is doing her best to make the most of a terrible situation. This intimate story is one of female empowerment and endurance in a cultural system that often treats females as second class citizens. Shayda (Zar Amir-…
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