My Favourite Cake(Keyke mahboobe man)

70-year-old Mahin lives alone in Tehran. Her husband has passed and her daughter lives abroad. Encouraged by her friends to get out of her shell and meet someone new, she soon sets her eyes on Faramarz, an unmarried taxi driver. Sweet and a little bitter, perhaps like its titular cake, Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha’s poignant slice-oflife offers a portrait of middle-class women in post-revolution Iran. Sprinkled with canny observations about life under the heel of the morality police, it is an ode to the everyday fight – including the directors’ own wrestling with the authority – to preserving the small pleasures of life despite it all.

Berlin International Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury