My Favourite Cake
- Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha
- Ireland, France, Sweden, Germany
- 2024
- 97'
- Keyke mahboobe man
Premiering at this year’s Berlinale, where it was awarded the FIPRESCI and Ecumenical Jury prizes, My Favourite Cake is a touching romantic tragicomedy about finding love and a new zest for life in old age. Seventy-year-old Mahin has been living alone in Tehran since her husband died and her daughter moved to Europe. When a couple of friends encourage her to break her solitary routine and revitalize her love life, Mahin goes out into the street in search of a man. As she opens herself up to new romance, what begins as an unexpected encounter quickly evolves into an unpredictable evening that she will never forget. The film drew the anger of the Iranian authorities, due to the free portrayal of the female protagonist and her confrontation with the Iranian “morality police”.
Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha
Maryam Moghaddam is an Iranian actor, screenwriter and filmmaker, born in Tehran, Iran. She studied at the Performing Arts School of Gothenburg in Sweden, has worked as an actor in various Swedish theatres and has starred in Iranian films, including Closed Curtain (2013) by Jafar Panahi and Kambuzia Partovi. In collaboration with Behtash Sanaeeha, she co-wrote the screenplay for his debut feature Risk of Acid Rain (2015.) and together they co-directed the film Ballad of a White Cow (2020), which premiered in the Berlinale Competition.
Behtash Sanaeeha was born in Shiraz, Iran, and began to write screenplays after completing a degree in architecture. He has made several short films and commercials. His debut feature, Risk of Acid Rain (2015), which he co-wrote with Maryam Moghaddam, screened at international festivals. Together they co-directed Ballad of a White Cow (2020), which premiered in the Berlinale Competition.
My Favourite Cake
- Director
- Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha
- Screenplay
- Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha
- Cast
- Lily Farhadpour, Esmail Mehrabi
- DOP
- Mohammad Haddadi
- Editing
- Ata Mehrad, Behtash Sanaeeha, Ricardo Saraiva
- Producer
- Gholamreza Mousavi, Behtash Sanaeeha, Etienne de Ricaud, Peter Krupenin, Christopher Zitterbart
- Production
- Filmsazan Javan, Caractères Productions, Hobab, Watchmen Productions
- Festivals & Awards
- Berlinale – Ecumenical Jury Award, FIPRESCI Award
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