"Shayda" - Interview with Film Director Noora Niasari

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English - December 13, 2023 04:15 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MB
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The Australian entry in the Best International Feature Film category for the 96th Academy Awards, SHAYDA follows an immigrant woman living in a woman's shelter with her six-year-old daughter after filing for divorce from her abusive husband.

In the following interview, the writer/director Noora Niasari spoke on the filmmaking process with Borrowing Tape interviewer Sofia Sheehan.