Shayda

1h 58m

6.7

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.

Cast

Zar Amir Ebrahimi

Selina Zahednia

Lucinda Armstrong Hall

Night Club Member (uncredited)

Alanna Ha Quach

Catherine Glavicic

Nicole Gulasekharam

Ghazal Ghazanfari

Oona lux Nelson-Moore

Christopher Dimattina

Fariborz Pakzamir

Kamran Motamedi

Iranian Husband

Shaliz Hosseini

Behrouz Harvasi

Aurnab As-Saber

Faouzi Daghistani

Negin Emamgholi

Mohsen Panahi Erdi

Sabrina Sanavandi

Mohsen Hashemnejad

Porsha Ghorbanpour

Forouzan Ghorbanpour

Phillip McInnes

Crew

Director, Writer, Producer

Lynne Vincent McCarthy

Peter J. Bennett

Assistant Editor

Sherwin Akbarzadeh

Director of Photography

First Assistant Director

Second Assistant Director

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Lindsay Lanzillotta

Executive Producer

Naomi McDougall Jones

Executive Producer

Nivedita Kulkarni

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Gabrielle Stewart

Executive Producer

Vincent Sheehan

Josephine Wagstaff

Production Design

Anousha Zarkesh

Casting Director

Zohie Castellano

Costume Designer

Hair Department Head, Makeup Department Head

Keiran Watson-Bonnice

Second Unit Director

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Sound Recordist

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Music Supervisor

Dialogue Editor

Script Supervisor

Mandi Bialek-Wester