Preserving Taste

• NYWIFT 24 Documentary
• 2024

Hanif Sadr, chef from Tehran, Iran, opens his first restaurant in San Francisco, USA. His mission is to introduce the regional and seasonal recipes of Northern Iran, where its ingredients geographically match California. With his wife banned from the US, and sanctioned Iranian ingredients, he travels back and forth between Iran and the U.S, attempting to bridge the personal and political to bring back a taste of home. Alongside other renowned food figures Hanif aims to show the depth of a unique forgotten cuisine that is connected with nature, influenced by seasons, and which defines the art of preservation techniques.