My Favourite Cake

Local title
Minu lemmikkook
Original title
Keyk e mahbub e man
Director
Maryam Moqadam, Behtash Sanaeeha
Country
Iran, France, Sweden, Germany
Year
2024
Festival
28th Black Nights Film Festival
Programme
Best of Festivals
Genre
comedy, romantic comedy
Subject
love, feel-good

Seventy-year-old Mahin, solitary until now, chooses to revive her love life. A chance encounter becomes an unforgettable evening.

The 70-year-old Mahin has been living alone in Tehran since her husband died and her daughter left for Europe. One afternoon, tea with friends leads her to break her solitary routine and revitalise her love life. But as Mahin opens herself up to a new romance, what begins as an unexpected encounter quickly evolves into an unpredictable, unforgettable evening.

“My Favourite Cake” is a film about second chances, about the possibility of starting from scratch regardless of age or gender, against the dictates of tradition. A courageous ode to freedom that finds in personal stories the subtlest form of subversion.

Berlinale FIPRESCI Award and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.

Director
Maryam Moqadam, Behtash Sanaeeha
Screenwriter
Maryam Moghaddam, Behtash Sanaeeha
Cast
Lily Farhadpour, Esmail Mehrabi
Producer
Etienne de Ricaud, Peter Krupenin, Gholamreza Moosavi, Behtash Sanaeeha, Christopher Zitterbart
Cinematographer
Mohammad Haddadi
Music
Henrik Nagy
World sales
Totem Films
Runtime
Language
Persian
Subtitles
English
Director
Maryam Moqadam
Director
Behtash Sanaeeha

Screenings

Hall 1 Kino Artis
Screening022101 / Minu lemmikkook
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
8th Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening060802 / Minu lemmikkook
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
Saal Kino Sõprus
Screening113101 / Minu lemmikkook
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
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