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Iranian Directors Banned From Traveling to Berlinale Talk ‘Crossing All the Red Lines’ in ‘My Favourite Cake’
Iranian directors Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha, who are banned from traveling to Berlin, talk crossing red lines with 'My Favourite Cake.'
The film is about a 70-year-old woman named Mahin who has been living alone in Tehran ever since her husband died and her daughter left for Europe. And after a few days, they called us and summoned us to the offices of security forces, where we [underwent] lots of interrogations about the film and they pushed us to stop making it. Sanaeeha: It crosses all the red lines they’ve had in [Iran] for the past 45 years: Like mandatory hijab; like drinking alcohol; like dancing for women.
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