57th edition May 14-24, 2025
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The President's Cake

Mamlaket Al-Qasab

Hasan HADI

Quinzaine 2025 | Feature film | 102 min | Iraq, United States of America, Qatar |
World premiere | Film in competition for the Caméra d'Or Award

While people struggle daily to survive under sanctions in Saddam's Iraq, nine-year-old Lamia must use her wits to gather ingredients for the mandatory cake to celebrate President Saddam Hussein's birthday or face the consequences—prison or death.

Artistic & technical sheet

Contacts

With

Banin Ahmad Nayef (Lamia), Sajad Mohamad Qasem (Saeed), Waheed Thabet Khreibat (Bibi), Rahim AlHaj (Jasim)

Screenplay
Hasan Hadi
Sound
Tamas Zanyi
Music
Various
Photography
Tudor Vladimir Panduru RSC
Editing
Andu Radu
Production design
Annmarie Tecu
Production

TPC Film LLC (United States)
Leah Chen Baker
lchenbaker@gmail.com  

Foreign sales (North America)

United Talent Agency (UTA)
ronsonr@unitedtalent.com 
William Morris Endeavour (WME)
drak@wmeagency.com 

International Press

Required Viewing
Steven Raphael
Denise Sinelov
denise@requiredviewing.net 

Foreign sales
Distribution (France)
Press France

Rachel Bouillon 
rachel@rb-presse.fr