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‘My Favourite Cake’ Directors Deliver Powerful Message From Iran After Authorities Banned Travel to Berlinale: ‘Like Parents Forbidden From Looking at Their Newborn Child’


'My Favourite Cake' directors Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeh were banned by Iranian authorities from traveling to this year's Berlinale.

At the film’s press conference on Friday morning, actors Lily Farhadpour and Esmail Mehrabi delivered a powerful message from the directors in the form of a letter as a photo of the two was propped up besides their empty seats. “My Favourite Cake” stirred up controversy in Iran because it shows a woman not wearing the mandatory hijab, people drinking alcohol and dancing. “My Favourite Cake” follows 70-year-old Mahin, who lives alone “until she decides to break her solitary routine and revitalize her love life,” the film’s plot description states.

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