Chosen as the official Oscar submission for Best International Film by Australia and produced by Cate Blanchett, Shayda received praise for its empathetic storytelling and brilliant performances.
Amanda is not your average 24-year-old girl. She’s obnoxious, narcissistic, aimless, and without a job, a boyfriend, or even a friend. The film is a mix of subversive humor and devastatingly relatable anxieties, it’s hard to believe that Amanda is Director Carolina Cavalli’s debut feature film.
Set in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942, the film tells the story of a Jewish acting group putting on a musical comedy play while chaos and violence happens around them.
