The President’s Cake
Set in Iraq in the 1990s, The President’s Cake follows the adventures of Lamia, a nine-year-old girl who, with her Hindi rooster on her back, must obtain the ingredients to make a birthday cake for Saddam Hussein.
Iraq | 2025 | 105 min. | VOSE arabic | NR -12
Direction and screenplay : Hasan Hadi
Cast : Baneen Ahmed Nayyef, Sajad Mohamad Qasem, Waheed Thabet Khreibat, Rahim AlHaj
Additional information : Golden Camera for Best First Feature and Audience Award at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at the Cannes Film Festival 2025
The film programming offered by Laboral Cinemateca is selected by the Gijón/Xixón International Film Festival (Divertia Gijón S.A.).
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Event with audio description systems available on demand.