My Favourite Cake (Keyke mahboobe man)

Balled of a White Cow duo Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha wasn't allowed by the Iranian authorities to travel to the Berlinale earlier this year for the world premiere of My Favourite Cake. Their new work zooms in on the lonely Mahin, a retired seventy-year-old nurse who has been a widow for thirty years and whose daughter and grandchildren live abroad. Having a man around sometimes comes in handy, notes one of her friends. In turn, divorced taxi driver Faramarz regrets that he no longer has a wife to cook for him. The two immediately hit it off when they meet, and Mahin invites Faramarz over - at her home at night. The Iranian Guidance Patrol would be thoroughly offended! My Favourite Cake is charming romcom with clever dialogues about love in later life, although the underlying commentary on the religious stranglehold of Iran becomes increasingly explicit as the film progresses.