My Favourite Cake

Name: My Favourite Cake
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Released: 2024
Duration: 97 min
Cast: Lili Farhadpour, Esmaeel Mehrabi, Mansoore Ilkhani, Soraya Orang, Homa Mottahedin

Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha20241h 37mRomance, Comedy, Drama

Why we chose it

This feel-good film about life after retirement takes an uninhibited look at growing old in Iran. A seventy-year-old widow in Tehran invites a taxi driver back to her place, where there’s dancing, wine and everything else the country forbids, and she doesn’t ask anyone’s permission.

Synopsis

Mahin is seventy, and since her husband died and her family moved abroad she has lived on her own. Over afternoon tea, her friends tell her she ought to find someone. So she heads to a restaurant for pensioners, and at one of the tables sits a taxi driver.