Iranian directors, Baytash Sanha, and Maryam Mugadam, received a 14 -month prison sentence in addition to fines of $ 14,000 related to an advantage My favorite cake Which was first shown at the Berlin Film Festival in 2024.
The film duo and their producer and Julmeraza were in the intersection of the regime of the Islamic authoritarian Republic since early 2023 on the intimate drama about the widow of the elderly who re -calls the pleasures of small life in the face of isolation.
Sanaeeha and Moghadam, a Swedish citizen, also charged a travel ban before the global screening of the film in Berlin, and the couple has since been an investigation into the Islamic Revolutionary Court. In the period before the court in February, they also started receiving death threats.
Elements My favorite cake Which disturbed the Iranian authorities, including showing the protagonist, which Lily Ferdor is playing, without the veil, as well as the story about her romantic relationship with one widow on the equal foot and scenes in which she dances and drinks wine with him.
The papers of the court issued by the 26th branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran this week state that Sana, Muwajham and Mossi were convicted of “advertising against the Islamic Republic by spreading the wrong information aimed at annoying public opinion” as well as the production of “obscene content”.
They were sentenced to 14 months in prison, and they were suspended for five years, and they were ordered to pay a fine of 400 Iranian meters (9.4 thousand dollars) to the Ministry of Governmental Treasury. In addition, the trio was also fined 200 million Iranian riyals (4.7 thousand dollars) and their equipment was confiscated to examine and distribute the film without an official exhibition license.
My favorite cake In the aftermath of the women's freedom protests in Iran in 2022, she was raised by Mahasa's death in the police seizure after she was arrested because her hair was not covered according to the Islamic Republic’s citizenship rules on how to wear women.
Before 1979, the Islamic woman was free to wear what they wanted.
My favorite cake It is among a number of Iranian features made in the wake of the protests that show women without covering their head.
Muhammad Rasolov nominated Oscar The seed of the secret shapeHe was shot in Iran before going to exile in Germany in 2024, and went further, as he challenged the country's patriarchal regime. Oscar -winning director, Asghar Farhadi, who also lives outside the country, said he will not shoot in Iran until the commitment to wearing the veil is raised.
Political persecution, Sanahham and Moujoham, who were stuck in Iran, worried about the international cinema industry.
More than 3000 cinema professionals-including Juliet Pinosh, Pedro Alodovar, Jean-Pierre Darden, Hayam Abbas, Alberto Barbira, Tricchia Tatter, and Rebecca Zlotovsky-on a petition calling on managers to release them and drop the coming charges from the experiment in February.
The International Alliance of Directors at risk (ICFR), a joint venture between the European Film Academy and the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA), the International Film Festival (IFFR), which incited the petition, called for the international film community to maintain the distinction of the ordeal of Sanaeehamham, Moghadam and Mousavi.
