Iranian ‘My Favourite Cake’ Filmmakers Sound Alarm Over Court Summons & Anonymous Death Threats
deadline.comIranian directors Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghadam have appealed for support after they received a court summons and anonymous death threats related to their film My Favourite Cake which world premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2024.
A heartwarming tale of love and loss and coming to terms with old age, My Favourite Cake stars Lily Farhadpour as a 70-year-old widow who reconnects with life’s small pleasures in the face of solitude, following her husband’s death.
In a message posted on social media, Sanaeeha said that after several interrogation sessions related to the film at the security prosecutor’s office for Iran’s notorious Evin jail, he and Moghadam had been summoned for a hearing at a revolutionary court on March 1.
The charges against them are: propaganda against the regime; production, distribution, and duplication of a film with obscene content; offending public decency and morality and screening the film without obtaining a screening and distribution license.
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