Hadi Falach is not your average soldier. If you had asked me who he was a few weeks ago, I wouldn’t have been able to place him, certainly not by name alone. But that was before the past few day ...

With “The President’s Cake,” Hadi has done exactly that, closely following his lead-character Lamia (Baneen Ahmed Nayyef, in an impossibly soulful performance). It’s Iraq in the 1990s ...

By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Iraqi filmmaker Hasan Hadi has won the Directors’ Fortnight People’s Choice Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his poignant, darkly comic debut ...

Sales agency Films Boutique has closed two key territories on Iraqi writer/director Hasan Hadi’s “The President’s Cake” ahead of its world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight during the ...

Hadi Falach is not your average soldier. If you had asked me who he was a few weeks ago, I wouldn’t have been able to place him, certainly not by name alone. But that was before the past few day ...

Iraqi filmmaker Hasan Hadi has won the Directors’ Fortnight People’s Choice Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his poignant, darkly comic debut feature The President’s Cake. The €7,500 ...

Even then, the happenstance link between Hasan Hadi’s compassionate directorial debut “The President’s Cake” and Fatih Akin’s quiet epic “Amrum” is something of a shock, as both ...