Film won the Audience Award at Sundance this year.The Locarno Film Festival is to close with the European premiere of Iranian-Australian director Noora Niasari’s debut film Shayda.
Locarno runs from August 2-12.The film, which won the Audience Award at Sundance 2023, is executive produced by Cate Blanchett through Dirty Films, the production company she runs alongside Andrew Upton and Coco Francini.
Zar Amir Ebrahimi, who stars in the film, is the 2022 Cannes Best Actress Winner for Holy Spider.
Both will also attend the screening together with director Noora Niasari.Shayda tells the story of an Iranian woman’s…
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