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The President’s Cake – 23 August
August 23 @ 7:00 pm
While people across 1990’s Iraq struggle to survive, nine year old Lamia has been selected to prepare a cake to celebrate the President’s birthday. Beautifully shot and acted, and with a keen sense of time and place, it is an exhilarating and humorous adventure.
Directed by Hasan Hadi.
Stars Baneen Ahmad Nayyef, Sajad Mohamad Qasem, Waheed Thabet Khreibat, and Rahim AlHaj.
Iraq/USA/Qatar (Arabic)
Rated M.
Released 2025.
Runtime 105 minutes.
Cannes Film Festival: Directors’ Fortnight Audience Award, Camera d’Or; Miskolc International Film Festival: CICAE Jury Award, FIPRESCI Jury Award for Best International Film, International Ecumenical Jury Award; Hamptons International Film Festival: Best Narrative Feature; Stockholm International Film Festival: Best Debut.
