Director-screenwriter: Hasan Hadi Cast: Banin Ahmad Nayef, Sajad Mohamad Qasem, Waheed Thabet Khreibat, Rahim Alhaj Running time: 1 hr 42 min 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 ...

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 ...

Hadi was still laying the very final touches in the sound mix when I sat down with him via Zoom a week before the film’s Cannes premiere to discuss how this story was personal to him, his narrative ...

EXCLUSIVE: Films Boutique has boarded world sales on Hasan Hadi’s Iraqi debut feature The President’s Cake, which was selected for Cannes sidebar Directors’ Fortnight earlier this month ...

Based on Hadi's own childhood in 1990s Iraq, the film follows nine-year-old Lamia, who is tasked with baking a cake to honor Saddam Hussein's birthday - a seemingly simple assignment with life-or ...

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 ...

Perhaps the most surprising thing about today’s world premiere of The President’s Cake in the Directors Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival is that it isn’t in the main official competition ...