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Language: Persian (Farsi)

An older man and woman in a cosy home are standing, heads leaning against each other, looking down at the screen of a smart phone.
12A

My Favourite Cake (Keyke mahboobe man)

UK Premiere

My Favourite Cake (Keyke mahboobe man)

A profoundly moving meditation on ageing, loneliness and love in unexpected places. An elderly Iranian widow encounters a lonely taxi driver in Tehran, where female oppression and strict social structures are subverted as a delicate kinship blooms against the odds....

UK Premiere
Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha
2024
97 mins
A group of people trudge up a mountainside, huge rectangular packs strapped to their backs.
15

All The Mountains Give

World Premiere

All The Mountains Give

A powerful account of the Kolbari covert goods traden between the Kurdish cities and towns of Iran and borders of Iraq. The film follows Hamid and Yasser over six years as they contend with the life threatening conditions they and...

World Premiere
Arash Rakhsha
2024
91 mins
A man holds a wrapped white box in garage, as a woman looks on.
15

A Shrine

World Premiere

A Shrine

A middle-aged man builds a mobile religious shrine to make money in this darkly funny and moving exploration of consequences. Confronted by the success of this get-rich-quick scheme, a crisis of conscience forces our hero into a spiral of remorse...

World Premiere
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2024
84 mins

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