The President's Cake (12A) | Monday Night Film Club

Lamia, a young girl from Iraq's Mesopotamian Marshes, is chosen to bake a cake celebrating Saddam Hussein's birthday, which she must do or face the consequences. A moving portrait of love, friendship and the resilience of a people caught between authoritarian rule and injudicious US imperialism. In Arabic with English subtitles. From debut Iraqi director Hasan Hadi, The President's Cake is a beautiful tale of love, friendship and resilience told from the perspective of a child growing up under Saddam Hussein's oppressive regime. It was the first Iraqi film to feature at the Cannes Film Festival, where it premiered in the Directors' Fortnight and won both the section's Audience Award, as well as the festival's prestigious Camera d'Or.