My Favourite Cake

My Favourite Cake (2024) is an Iranian comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM, co-directed by Maryam Moqadam and Behtash Sanaeeha in a co-production spanning Iran, Germany, France, and Sweden. Mahin is seventy years old and lives alone in Tehran — her husband died years ago, her daughter resettled in Europe, and her grandchildren exist mainly as faces on a phone screen.

Then she walks a little further one afternoon. She steps in when morality police stop a young woman on the street. She meets a widowed taxi driver and invites him home for dinner — a small act of will she hasn't allowed herself in a long time. Lily Farhadpour carries the whole film without once asking for the audience's sympathy; she simply shows someone deciding to be present again.

The film claimed the Silver Bear Special Jury Prize at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival. Quiet and precise, it lands harder than it has any right to. Watch My Favourite Cake online on iFILM.