Directors announced, "We dedicate our film to the courage of Iranian women" - Cinema.com. The authors of "My Favorite Cake", Maryam Moghaddam and her partner Behtash Sanaeeha, running for the Golden Bear, sent a message from Tehran to the Berlin International Film Festival on Friday.
Believing that the strict rules governing film production in Iran prevent them from showing the reality of society, the directors, aged 54 and 43, said they wanted to "portray the true image of Iranian woman, who have been banned from Iranian cinema by Islamic revolution"