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

Hadi, among other things, is a 2022 Sundance Lab Fellow and recipient of the 2022 Sundance/NHK Award, SFFILM Rainin Grant, and Doha film institute grant for this feature film 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 Cannes Film ...

Aptly then, and in the spirit of resistance, Iraqi filmmaker Hasan Hadi opens his debut feature, “The President’s Cake,” with a clairvoyant line from Gilgamesh, as the camera sails across a ...

It’s Iraq in the 1990s — as Hadi remembers it. The film is set among the Mesopotamian marshes of his childhood, where school children glide through marshlands in canoes to get to their classes ...

Director/Screenwriter: Hasan Hadi Cast: Banin Ahmad Nayef, Sajad Mohamad Qasem, Waheed Thabet Khreibat, Rahim Alhaj Running Time: 1 hour and 42 minutes Best of Deadline ...

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 ...

Sales agency Films Boutique has closed two key territories on Hasan Hadi’s “The President’s Cake” ahead of its world premiere at Cannes Film Festival.

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 Cannes Film ...