Description
Mahin is a 70-year-old widow living alone in Tehran. On a quiet impulse, she decides she has been solitary long enough. She finds an old phone book, makes a call, and invites a man she barely knows to dinner. What follows is a tender, funny, and quietly devastating evening for two people navigating desire, companionship, and loss in a country that makes such freedoms difficult.
Written and directed by Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha, My Favourite Cake (2024) premiered in competition at the Berlin Film Festival. The filmmakers were prevented from attending by the Iranian authorities, who later sentenced them to suspended jail terms for making the film. Their courage makes this a film worth seeing.
My Favourite Cake is in Persian (Farsi), with English subtitles.
Runtime: 97 minutes
This film is part of a season exploring Iranian cinema.
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