Winner of the Camera d’Or Award at Cannes – given to the best “first” feature film – this tenderly-crafted film about the loss of childhood is sure to garner much praise for Iraqi writer/director Hasan Hadi!
Set in 1990’s Iraq, The President’s Cake follows 9-year-old Lamia who has been specially selected to bake a cake for The President’s birthday. As Lamia and some companions winds their way through the rough urban environment surrounding her – an environment of coarseness, suspicion, and turmoil – in a search for the basic elements to make the birthday cake, the challenges they face end up strengthening their sense of humanity in a world where there seems to be not much left.
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