Zar Amir Ebrahimi as Shayda and and Selina Zahednia as Mona in Shayda Photo credit: Jane Zhang. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.
Shayda (Zar Amir Ebrahimi) flees her abusive husband in Iran, along with her six-year-old daughter Mona (Selina Zahednia), and goes into hiding at an international women’s shelter in Australia, in the moving, semi-autobiographical Australian drama Shayda.
Set in the 1990s, Shayda is partly based on writer/director Noora Niasari’s own childhood experiences, when her mother fled Iran. Zar Amir Ebrahimi gives a charismatic, emotionally moving performance as Shayda, in a touching, emotionally-powerful drama that follows the mother’s and daughter’s journey. Young Selina Zahednia is a charmer as cute, mischievous Mona, effectively portraying her growth in understanding and maturity as they stay in the shelter. The drama premiered at Sundance in 2023, where it won the Audience Award in the World Cinema Dramatic competition, and it...
Shayda (Zar Amir Ebrahimi) flees her abusive husband in Iran, along with her six-year-old daughter Mona (Selina Zahednia), and goes into hiding at an international women’s shelter in Australia, in the moving, semi-autobiographical Australian drama Shayda.
Set in the 1990s, Shayda is partly based on writer/director Noora Niasari’s own childhood experiences, when her mother fled Iran. Zar Amir Ebrahimi gives a charismatic, emotionally moving performance as Shayda, in a touching, emotionally-powerful drama that follows the mother’s and daughter’s journey. Young Selina Zahednia is a charmer as cute, mischievous Mona, effectively portraying her growth in understanding and maturity as they stay in the shelter. The drama premiered at Sundance in 2023, where it won the Audience Award in the World Cinema Dramatic competition, and it...
- 3/22/2024
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Yoshiki, the Japanese superstar and global renaissance man in the world of music for four decades, believes his latest creative venture as film director, in some ways, saved his life.
His debut documentary feature “Yoshiki: Under the Sky” is a concert film produced during the Covid pandemic shutdowns and features musical performances with famed collaborators as diverse as Nicole Scherzinger to St. Vincent.
Yoshiki made the project because “I wanted to lift up the spirit of my fans,” he told TheWrap as part of his Screening Series interview. “That’s the main reason. But at the same time, I was also in a dark place. Trying to help people was actually helping me.”
He continued: “There were so many [Covid] restrictions. Of course, I didn’t want to cross the line, but [to explore] how human beings feel how fragile we are, how powerless we are.”
In the movie, Yoshiki is unflinching about...
His debut documentary feature “Yoshiki: Under the Sky” is a concert film produced during the Covid pandemic shutdowns and features musical performances with famed collaborators as diverse as Nicole Scherzinger to St. Vincent.
Yoshiki made the project because “I wanted to lift up the spirit of my fans,” he told TheWrap as part of his Screening Series interview. “That’s the main reason. But at the same time, I was also in a dark place. Trying to help people was actually helping me.”
He continued: “There were so many [Covid] restrictions. Of course, I didn’t want to cross the line, but [to explore] how human beings feel how fragile we are, how powerless we are.”
In the movie, Yoshiki is unflinching about...
- 1/8/2024
- by Joe McGovern
- The Wrap
Exclusive: A List Media Entertainment and Magnolia Pictures Home Entertainment are partnering to distribute the Oscar-qualified music documentary Yoshiki: Under the Sky on digital platforms in North America.
The film, which has been released in more than 130 cinemas in Japan, Europe and the U.S. to date, marks the directorial debut of Yoshiki, the musician and composer known for founding and leading bands X Japan and The Last Rockstars. Yoshiki: Under the Sky was “conceived during the pandemic when musicians could not connect with their fans,” according to a release about the documentary, gathering “an extraordinary collection of international artists for an emotional journey through the pain of losing loved ones and uniting globally through the healing power of music.”
Nicole Scherzinger in ‘Yoshiki: Under the Sky’
The release adds, “Shot in Germany, Beijing, Tokyo, and L.A., the film features interviews and performances from Sarah Brightman (UK), Nicole Scherzinger (USA), St.
The film, which has been released in more than 130 cinemas in Japan, Europe and the U.S. to date, marks the directorial debut of Yoshiki, the musician and composer known for founding and leading bands X Japan and The Last Rockstars. Yoshiki: Under the Sky was “conceived during the pandemic when musicians could not connect with their fans,” according to a release about the documentary, gathering “an extraordinary collection of international artists for an emotional journey through the pain of losing loved ones and uniting globally through the healing power of music.”
Nicole Scherzinger in ‘Yoshiki: Under the Sky’
The release adds, “Shot in Germany, Beijing, Tokyo, and L.A., the film features interviews and performances from Sarah Brightman (UK), Nicole Scherzinger (USA), St.
- 12/6/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Like many entertainers during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Japanese songwriter and musician Yoshiki wanted to find a way to use his artistry to lift people’s spirits, particularly fans who wrote to him about being in a dark place during that time.
“The intention was to spread love,” Yoshiki said during a taping of THR Presents, powered by Vision Media. “At that time there were so many amazing artists doing Zoom call-like stuff from the living room or something like that, but I wanted to do something bigger than life.”
The result is the film Yoshiki: Under the Sky, a music documentary three years in the making that features performances of the composer with acts from around the globe including American Edm-Pop duo The Chainsmokers, violinist Lindsey Stirling and singer Nicole Scherzinger.
“I’ve known her since before she joined Pussycat Dolls,” Yoshiki says of Scherzinger. “She came...
“The intention was to spread love,” Yoshiki said during a taping of THR Presents, powered by Vision Media. “At that time there were so many amazing artists doing Zoom call-like stuff from the living room or something like that, but I wanted to do something bigger than life.”
The result is the film Yoshiki: Under the Sky, a music documentary three years in the making that features performances of the composer with acts from around the globe including American Edm-Pop duo The Chainsmokers, violinist Lindsey Stirling and singer Nicole Scherzinger.
“I’ve known her since before she joined Pussycat Dolls,” Yoshiki says of Scherzinger. “She came...
- 11/15/2023
- by Brande Victorian
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Chris Tucker, Adrien Brody and Paul Haggis were on hand Saturday to give a huge high-tech finale to the fifth edition of the Jackie Chan Action Film Week. So too were Crystal Liu Yifei, star of Disney’s upcoming “Mulan,” and a bevy of top Chinese talent.
Moving the event from the fringes of the Shanghai festival in June, to a new date and spectacular outdoor venues provided by provincial town of Datong, some 200 miles East of Beijing in Shanxi Province, may have revitalized the Action Film Week. Upbeat organizers now talk of franchising the event to other countries.
If the opening on July 21 was reportedly relatively quiet, the closing ceremony was a razzamatazz of stunts, choreography and pyrotechnics with ambitions of matching an Olympic Games or World Cup opening.
Held in a full-sized sports arena, with perhaps 20,000 spectators, the show opened with a troop of astronauts arriving from the skies,...
Moving the event from the fringes of the Shanghai festival in June, to a new date and spectacular outdoor venues provided by provincial town of Datong, some 200 miles East of Beijing in Shanxi Province, may have revitalized the Action Film Week. Upbeat organizers now talk of franchising the event to other countries.
If the opening on July 21 was reportedly relatively quiet, the closing ceremony was a razzamatazz of stunts, choreography and pyrotechnics with ambitions of matching an Olympic Games or World Cup opening.
Held in a full-sized sports arena, with perhaps 20,000 spectators, the show opened with a troop of astronauts arriving from the skies,...
- 7/30/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
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