Border Café

A young widow takes over her late husband’s truck stop café, keeping hidden in the kitchen so as not to cause a scandal in Iran’s conservative society. But her brother-in-law, out of familial obligation, wants to take her as a wife and also take over the café. Meanwhile a Greek trucker who is a frequent café customer is slowly entranced — at first by her sublime cooking ability, and then by her.

Director: Kambuzia Partovi

Cast: Fereshteh Sadr Orafaee, Parviz Parastouei, Nikos Papadopoulos, Svieta Mikalishina, Vantzos Konstantinos, Esmail Soltanian, Esmail Soltanian, Rana Karmanshahi

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.