Films starring Zar Amir-Ebrahimi

Shayda review – a moving, necessary picture

By Madeleine Wilson

Noora Niasari's tender drama follows a mother and her six-year-old daughter who take shelter at a women's refuge after fleeing an abusive marriage.

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Holy Spider

By David Jenkins

Ali Abbasi crafts a thriller ripped from the headlines in this story of 'The Spider Killer' who targeted female sex workers in Mashhad, Iran.

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