Persian Film Screening “Border Café”

Persian Film Screening “Border Café”

Directed by Kambuzia Partovi (Iran, 2005)

In a village near Iran’s border with Turkey, Reyhan, a young woman with two children, faces a difficult choice when her husband dies. She is continuously pressured to move into her brother-in-law’s home and become his second wife. Instead of agreeing to marry her brother-in-law, as required by her husband’s family tradition, she argues that she would rather support her family by re-opening her late husband’s truck stop café. The director, Kambuzia Partovi, portrays Reyhan’s struggle for self-sufficiency in a rigidly traditional environment.

Introduction and Discussion by Farkhondeh Shayesteh
Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations