Certainly one of our most anticipated titles out of Sundance 2023 has discovered a house following its world premiere on the fest, the place it took residence the Viewers Award within the World Cinema Dramatic Competitors. Sony Footage Classics has landed rights to “Shayda,” Noora Niasari’s characteristic debut. A press launch introduced the information.
Counting Cate Blanchett amongst its exec producers, “Shayda” follows an Iranian girl dwelling in Australia who “finds refuge in a ladies’s shelter along with her six-year-old daughter, Mona. Having fled her husband, Hossein, and filed for divorce, Shayda struggles to take care of normalcy and create a brand new residence for Mona. Buoyed by the method of Nowruz (Persian New 12 months), Shayda tries to forge a recent begin with new and unfettered freedoms. However when a decide grants Hossein visitation rights, he reenters their life, fueling Shayda’s apprehension that he’ll try to take Mona again to Iran,” the movie’s synopsis teases.
“I’ve held the deepest admiration for Sony Footage Classics since childhood. For my debut characteristic to be distributed by them is a dream. I do know they are going to set the stage for a beautiful launch, in order that audiences worldwide can expertise the emotional depth and energy of ‘Shayda,’” stated Niasari.
Sony Footage Classics emphasised that Niasari’s characters are “fantastically relatable and her relationships fashioned with honesty, humanity, and the heat that may come from household and neighborhood.”
Supply: Women And Hollywood