PFF The President's Cake

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Running time: 106 mins

Directed by: Hasan Hadi Writer: Hasan Hadi

Release Date: 24/10/2026

Starring: Baneen Ahmad Nayyef, Waheed Thabet Khreibat, Sajad Mohamad Qasem

A view from within Iraq during the Gulf War of the �90s, but here it�s through the eyes of nine-year-old Lamia, who has been tasked in her school class to bake a cake that will form the centrepiece of the class�s celebrations of their supreme leader � Saddam Hussein. The tragedy of the warring nation is reduced, from Lamia�s perspective, to sourcing eggs and sugar as well as staying safe amidst the barely contained chaos. A simple, colourful and moving film filled with fascinating detail of a crumbling regime and of a child trying to be a child under the harshest of circumstances.