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[SHAYDA]
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
ESSAYS№ 04
Australian women on screen in 2023 were allowed to be difficult and the work was better for it
The year's strongest Australian screen work gave women permission to be angry, messy, cruel, and specific, and the camera did not flinch.
MARA DENG22.03.2023