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‘The main issue was always the hijab’: the Iranian directors arrested for their gentle septuagenarian comedy
Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha, makers of My Favourite Cake, received an ovation at the Berlin film festival while under house arrest in Tehran. They speak about the struggle of creating art under a dictatorship
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