Asawer film premieres in Baghdad under the Prime Minister’s drama support grant, highlighting Iraqi forces’ sacrifices against ISIS.
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.
Iraqi director Hasan Hadi’s debut feature, “The President’s Cake,” which screens in Directors’ Fortnight, is the first film from Iraq at to play in Cannes. Set in Iraq the 1990s, it also “fills a gap, ...
Warm, funny and heartbreaking, The President’s Cake tells the story of a brutal ruler and a girl forced to make him a present in a time of sanctions-induced hardship. Its Iraqi director Hasan Hadi ...
Mike Shiley, the photographer for the Monday and Tuesday travelogues at the Putnam Museum in Davenport, says he’s become “sort of an ambulance chaser” in recent years. “Inside Iraq: The Untold Stories ...