Tag: Iran film

For Rana

Posted by Clarence Tsui | Oct 7, 2024 | Busan 2024, Festivals |

Iranian director Iman Yazdi offers predictable melodrama with his first feature ‘For Rana’, which is in the running for Busan’s New Currents award.

My Favourite Cake

Posted by Deborah Young | Feb 16, 2024 | Festivals, Spotlight |

A small jewel of an Iranian romantic comedy, ‘My Favourite Cake’ pits an older woman determined to find a measure of happiness against the restrictions of the Islamic regime and the loneliness of aging, while the film’s creators Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha have been banned from traveling to Berlin.