Director: Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha, 2024, Iran • France • Sweden • Germany, Language Persian with English subtitles, 1hr 36mins , Cert 12A
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Mon 21 October // 20:00
Wed 23 October // 20:00
Tickets: £5
At 70, retired nurse Mahin lives alone in Tehran; her husband is long dead, and her daughter and grandchildren reside abroad. She’s of a mind to do as she pleases: sleeping in ’til noon, gossiping bawdily with friends and defending a girl whom the morality police have accused of an improperly worn hijab. But she’s lonely, too – so she decides it’s time to find herself a new man.
That’s how Mahin ends up inviting Faramarz, an unmarried taxi driver her own age, to her home for an intimate night of orange-blossom sponge cake, illicit wine and company.
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