The President's Cake
Hasan Hadi
2025
103
Iraq, USA, Qatar
Synopsis
A moving tale that highlights the strength of love and friendship in the darkest of times.
In 1990s Iraq, 9-year-old Lamia must bake the President’s birthday cake. She scrambles to find ingredients for this compulsory task while facing potential punishment if she fails.
Certain things are written within you, and it is impossible to escape them.
Cast/Avec
- Baneen Ahmed Nayyef
- Sajad Mohamad Qasem
- Waheed Thabet Khreibat
- Rahim Alhaj
Screenplay
- Hasan Hadi
Cinematographer
- Tudor Vladimir Panduru Rsc
Sound
- Tamas Zanyi
Production
- TPC Films LLC
Screenings
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Wednesday 06 May 2026
20:00
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Hasan Hadi
An Iraqi screenwriter and director, Hasan Hadi grew up in southern Iraq during the war and has worked in journalism, production and as an adjunct lecturer in film at New York University.
He has received the Gotham-Marcie Bloom Fellowship, the Black Family Production Prize and the Sloan Foundation Production Award. A 2022 Sundance Lab fellow, he received the 2022 Sundance/NHK Award, the SFFILM Rainin Fellowship and the Doha Film Institute Fellowship for his debut film, The President’s Cake.
