Co-presented with the Global Film Initiative
Border Café
Kambozia Partovi. Iran. 2005. 105 min. 35 mm.
A young widowed mother takes a defiant stand and runs her late husband’s restaurant against the threat of men in her community to shut down her business. Hiding in the kitchen so that her customers do not see her, this woman struggles for independence and against a rigid society. Taking place on the Iran-Turkey border, the film reveals an unusual landscape where Iranian and Western societies converge. Director Partovi also wrote The Circle (2000), which won Venice International Film Festival’s Golden Lion award. Part of the Global Film Initiative’s Global Lens collection.
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