Shayda director Noora Niasari on family violence, Iranian liberation and taking her first film to the Oscars

Shayda director Noora Niasari on family violence, Iranian liberation and taking her first film to the Oscars

As a child, the Australian director fled family violence with her mother. Now she’s storming the global festival circuit with a movie about their pastGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWhen Noora Niasari was five years old, she lived in a women’s shelter with her Iranian mother. They were fleeing family violence in a country that wasn’t entirely familiar, trying to make a new life.That personal experience has informed Niasari’s debut fea…