Cafe Transit (Border Cafe) (2005)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477585/

Bridge to Iran: Border Cafe

Category: World Cinema: Cinemondo

Regions: Middle East

Topics: Women / Gender / Sexuality, Indigenous Peoples

Language: Greek, Persian, Turkish

English Sub-Titles

Iran, 105 minutes

Not a dvd rip.

sdtv rip, divx 1hr 50 minutes

Dir: Kambozia Partovi

Reyhan is the mother of two young children, living in a small town in

northern Iran near the Turkish border. When her husband dies, his brother

Nasser is eager to take over the family by marrying Reyhan and raising her

children in accordance with tradition.

;;Right after her husband’s funeral, the elder women in the family urge

Reyhan to shed her black mourning robes so that she can marry Nasser and

welcome him into her bed. But Reyhan respectfully rebuffs their urgings,

saying she is not ready.

;; Though Nasser expresses a sincere sense of duty toward his brother’s

widowed family, he becomes enraged when Reyhan repeatedly asserts her

independence by refusing to live with him, and then resurrects her late

husband’s run-down roadside cafe. When Reyhan’s culinary skills attract a

loyal and growing following, including one very admiring Greek truck

driver, she threatens not only Nasser’s own restaurant business, but his

manhood. Irate, he launches a relentless campaign to strip her of her

livelihood and her independence. Border Café is a complex portrait of the

roles of women and men in modern Iran.

;;Released as Part of The Global Lens Collection,

;;SDTV Rip- Divx- ;;English Sub, 1hr 50 minutes