The President’s Cake

Mamlāket al-Qasab

Indonesian Premiere

105 minutes | 2025 | Iraq | Drama | 🔊 Arabic

Synopsis

Sinopsis

While people across 1990s Iraq struggle to survive, 9-year-old Lamia has been selected to prepare a cake to celebrate the President’s birthday. In a landscape of fear and scarcity, where basic ingredients are nearly impossible to find, Lamia sets out on a determined journey throughout the big city in search of eggs, flour, and sugar. Accompanied by her grandmother, her loyal friend Saeed, and her pet rooster Hindi, she navigates vendors and police officers along the way. The President’s Cake, winner of the Camera d’Or and Audience Award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, embodies innocence, imagination, and inner strength.

Schedule

Jadwal

Director's Biography

Biografi Sutradara

Hasan Hadi

Hasan Hadi is an Iraqi writer and director. His short 'Swinnsuit' won an Oscar-qualifying award at Urbanworld and received distribution from HBO Max. Hasan's recognitions include the Tisch Dean's Fellowship, the Gotham-Marcie Bloom Fellowship, the Black Family Production Prize, the Sloan Foundation Production Award, and the BAFTA Newcomers Program. Hasan is a 2022 Sundance Institute Screenwriting and Directing Fellow and the recipient of the 2022 Sundance Institute/NHK Award and SFFILM Rainin Grant for his feature debut. He also worked as an adjunct professor at NYU's Graduate Film Program and was the recipient of Black Family Short Film Award.

Credit

Kredit

Production Company	Sony Pictures Classics
Producer	Leah Chen Baker
Director	Hasan Hadi
Scriptwriter	Hasan Hadi
Cinematographer	Tudor Vladimir Panduru RSC
Production Designer	Annmarie Tecu
Editor	Andu Radu
Main Cast	Baneen Ahmed Nayyef, Sajad Mohamad Qasem, Waheeda Thabet Khreibat, Rahim AlHaj
Director’s filmography	The President’s Cake (2025) Ebb and Flow (2024) Ricky (2023) Swimsuit (2021)
Notable Achievement
Contact	[email protected]