{"id":510,"date":"2026-06-07T11:27:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T11:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jalehesfahani.com\/en\/?p=510"},"modified":"2026-06-07T11:54:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T11:54:05","slug":"screening-my-favourite-cake-the-persianate-cinema-series-presents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jalehesfahani.com\/en\/2026\/06\/07\/screening-my-favourite-cake-the-persianate-cinema-series-presents\/","title":{"rendered":"Screening &#8220;My Favourite Cake&#8221; &#8211; The Persianate Cinema Series Presents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the second movie in the Persianate Cinema Series we will be screening <em><em>My Favourite Cake<\/em><\/em> , a tender, quietly subversive Iranian tragicomedy that follows Mahin, a 70-year-old widow in Tehran. Craving companionship, she breaks her solitary routine and boldly invites a single retired taxi driver, Faramarz, to her home. Their blossoming, late-in-life romance transforms into a poignant, heartwarming exploration of joy, freedom, and human connection. <br><br>The film is in Persian with English subtitles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Directed by Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha, with lead actors Lili Farhadpour and Esmaeel Mehrabi. A film made in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sunday 7 June <\/strong>2026 at Khalili Lecture Thatre, SOAS University of London, Russell Square WC1H 0XG<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/my-favourite-cake-tickets-1990590785625?aff=oddtdtcreator\">For tickets click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/jalehesfahani.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MyFavouriteCake-7June26-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jalehesfahani.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MyFavouriteCake-7June26-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/jalehesfahani.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MyFavouriteCake-7June26-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/jalehesfahani.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MyFavouriteCake-7June26.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second movie in the Persianate Cinema Series we will be screening My Favourite Cake , a tender, quietly subversive Iranian tragicomedy that follows Mahin, a 70-year-old widow in Tehran. Craving companionship, she&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-and-news","category-film-club","category-title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jalehesfahani.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jalehesfahani.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jalehesfahani.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jalehesfahani.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jalehesfahani.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jalehesfahani.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/jalehesfahani.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jalehesfahani.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jalehesfahani.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jalehesfahani.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jalehesfahani.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}