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Café Transit (in USA known as Border Cafe) is a 2005 Iranian film directed by Kambuzia Partovi. It was Iran's submission to the 79th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not nominated for the award. It was awarded best film in the 9th Dhaka International Film Festival.
Nov 3, 2005 · Border Café: Directed by Kambuzia Partovi. With Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Parviz Parastui, Nikos Papadopoulos, Svieta Mikalishina. "Cafe Transit" depicts an independent-minded widow who bucks tradition to run her dead husband's truck stop café.
Movie Info. Reyhan (Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy), a recently widowed woman living on the Iranian-Turkish border, causes controversy when she defies societal...
- Drama
The Iranian film, Café Transit (also known as Border Café, 2005) describes the struggles of a recently widowed mother of two small children in her efforts to live on her own in a traditional male-dominated society.
In a village near Iran's border with Turkey, Reyhan, a young woman with two children, faces a difficult choice when her husband dies. Instead of marrying her brother-in-law, as required by traditional law, she chooses to support her family by reopening her late husband's restaurant.
Cafe Transit follows in the footsteps of Big Night, Babette's Feast, Tampopo and other excellent movies made particularly memorable for their integration of food as a focal point in the story. It is also one of the best, relatively mainstream, movies to come out of Iran in the last few years.
Feb 24, 2024 · An independent-minded widow bucks tradition to run her dead husband's truck stop cafe. In Reyhan's village, it is a tradition for widows to marry their brothers-in-law, who assume the burden of a second wife and their children.
