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The President's Cake (2025)

The President's Cake (2025)

Drama
Release Date: 2025, December 26
Directors: Hasan Hadi
Countries: United States of America
Production: Maiden Voyage Pictures, Missing Piece Films, Spark Features, Working Barn Productions
Cast: Sajad Mohamad Qasem, Waheed Thabet Khreibat, Rahim AlHaj, Muthanna Malaghi, Ahmad Qasem Saywan, Thaer Salem, Fatima Abouharoon, Mohammed Rheimeh, Rokia Alwadi, Abdelkarim Jasim, Maytham Mreidi, Nadia Rashak

Overview:

While people across 1990s Iraq struggle to survive the war and food shortages, Saddam Hussein requires each school in the country to prepare a cake to celebrate his birthday. Despite her efforts to avoid getting picked, 9-year-old Lamia is chosen among her classmates. The young girl must now use her wits and imagination to gather ingredients for the mandatory cake or face the consequences.

Keywords:

1990s thoughtful tragic depressing dictatorship loss of family police arrest counterfeit money birthday cake saddam hussein