My Favourite Cake

March 11, 7.30pm

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Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha / Iran 2024 / 97 min / Cert 12A / Subtitles

This sweet and funny film looks at love, loss, loneliness and old age. Mahin is a widow whose daughter and grandchildren live abroad and her lonely life is shown in beautifully compressed tableaux.

One day she meets her friends for tea and meets someone who makes her feel alive again. Faramarz is a personable, single man and emotional connection manifests itself when she offers to bake him her favourite cake.

“Plans have a way of going awry in this lovely, intimate, tragicomic tale of late-blooming love in the shadow of Iran’s repressive regime. In its gentle way, this is a subversive piece of film-making” Observer