A few weeks after Zar Amir-Ebrahimi won the Best Actress Award in Cannes for her performance as journalist Arezoo Rahimi in crime thriller Holy Spider, the Iranian-French actor flew to Melbourne, A…
A still from Shayda by Noora Niasari, an official selection of the World Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
“I think the hardest part for me was that at times I wanted to protect Noora too,” says Amir-Ebrahimi. “Sometimes I didn’t want to ask questions because I was trying to find my way somehow without putting her in the position of asking her so many questions about her personal life. But Noora handled everything in an amazing way.”
Amir-Ebrahimi adds, “This violence towards women happens everywhere. But in Iran, the system doesn’t lead you to have your basic rights as we know now. Women in Iran are second class citizens in law and that’s why protection against domestic violence is low and even divorce, or how you share your life, everything is ten times more complicated than in any other country.
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