Hasan Hadi’s film The President’s Cake centres on a deceptively simple premise: every year, schoolchildren were selected to ...

Hasan Hadi's tragicomedy about Iraqi kids' big-city misadventures layers charm, insight and drama.

Taking place during 1990s Iraq, “The President’s Cake” serves as a glimpse into life under dictator Saddam Hussein as 9-year-old Lamia attempts to bake a cake for his birthday.

For Iraqis who lived through the 1990s, dictator Saddam Hussein's birthday on April 28 was a disorientating day of ...

Hasan Hadi’s Cannes-winning debut follows nine-year-old Lamia on a tense, tender race to bake Saddam’s birthday cake—set against Iraq’s haunting marshlands.

Nine-year-old Lamia is obliged by her school to make a birthday cake for the Iraqi president, and meets a series of vivid characters as she shops for sanctioned ingredients ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fremantle and Sinestra, the production outfit from director Johan Renck and producer Michael Parets, are in development on feature ...

Based on Will Bardenwerper's book, the latest project from a new partnership between Fremantle and Renck's Sinestra banner will tell the story of the 12 U.S. soldiers who guarded the ousted former ...

The story of the last months of Saddam Hussein’s life is to be told via a feature film from Fremantle and Sinestra. The Prisoner in His Palace is one of the first projects to emerge from the ...

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Fremantle and Sinestra, the production outfit from director Johan Renck and producer Michael Parets, are in development on feature film “The Prisoner in His Palace.” The film will be based on Will ...