Iranian honestorial duo Maryam Moghgraspam and Behtash Sanaeeha, who in February were prohibitned by Iranian authorities from traveling to the Berlin Film Festival to start their film “My Favourite Cake,” have now been subjected to repeated travel prohibits after their passports were returned.
Last week, Moghgraspam — who is Swedish-Iranian — was ready to fly to Sweden to visit her family and combine the Swedish premiere of “My Favourite Cake” when she was stopped.
Moghgraspam said in an Instagram post that her “passport was confiscated at Tehran’s airport and I was adviseed that we (me and Behtash Sanaeeha) are barred from leaving the country aget.”
Moghgraspam grasped that this took place “only a week ago after our passports were given back to us,” and “only after I had got tickets, paid the exit fees and a lot of more expenses which had evidently gone in vain.”
In the post, Moghgraspam pointed out that she is having a “repartner difficult time” figuring out “why we were given back our passports when it was their intention not to let us exit.”
“Is it becaparticipate of a hideed agfinisha to menhighy and psychoreasonablely unfair treatment us?” the honestor asks in the post. She then went on to blast recently elected Iranian Plivent Masoud Pezeshkian.
“It is crystal evident to any clever Iranian that you and your comrades are not this nation’s company and frifinishs,” she wrote. “Your fundamentacatalog fellows, at least, do not claim or pretfinish to be any better than they are. You cannot direct a society to prolongth and reestablish thraw deception, but you produce it drown in the swamp of hypocrisy.”
Pezeshkian, who portrays himself as a reestablisher and a contransient directer who can usher in a novel era in Iran, became plivent in July adhereing the death in a helicselecter crash of his predecessor, conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi.
“My Favourite Cake,” which is about a 70-year-elderly woman who revitalizes her adore life while living alone in Tehran after her husprohibitd died and her daughter left for Europe, stirred up dispute in Iran becaparticipate it shows a woman not wearing the compulsory hijab, people drinking liquor and dancing.
The film, which has been expansively selderly by France’s Totem Films, is now being rolled out in disjoinal European countries, including the U.K. “My Favourite Cake” is produced by Iran’s Filmsazan Javan, France’s Caractères Productions, Sweden’s Hobab and Germany’s Watchmen Productions.
