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[NOORA-NIASARI]
ESSAYS№ 01
Shayda shows what migration feels like from inside the refuge and does not translate
Niasari's film is in two languages and the subtitles carry only half of what the Farsi says, and that gap is the whole subject.
MARA DENG18.03.2024
MUSIC№ 02
The score for Shayda sounds like a lullaby sung through a locked door
The score carries two musical traditions at once and lets neither one win, which is exactly the position its protagonist occupies.
KIERAN BOUSTANY12.12.2023
FILM№ 03
Shayda finds freedom in a women's refuge and does not romanticise it
Noora Niasari's debut draws from her mother's story, and the film is better for being specific rather than representative.
BRONTE HAUGHEY22.09.2023