Iraqi filmmaker Hasan Hadi has won the Directors’ Fortnight People’s Choice Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his poignant, darkly comic debut feature The President’s Cake. The €7,500 ...

Cannes: In his debut feature, Iraqi filmmaker Hasan Hadi wisely prioritizes character and story, letting brutal dictatorship speak louder as backdrop.

Iraqi director Hasan Hadi’s debut feature, “The President’s Cake,” which screens in Directors’ Fortnight, is the first film from Iraq at to play in Cannes. Set in Iraq the 1990s, it also ...

Sales agency Films Boutique has closed two key territories on Iraqi writer/director Hasan Hadi’s “The President’s Cake” ahead of its world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight during the ...

Set in 1990s Iraq and premiering in Directors’ Fortnight, Hasan Hadi’s debut feature revolves around a third-grader on a mission to complete a dreaded school assignment.

Stay at a film festival long enough, and you will eventually notice certain shared themes and connective tissues between movies. Even then, the happenstance link between Hasan Hadi’s ...

Hasan Hadi, the first filmmaker from Iraq to be selected for the prestigious Cannes Festival, said that economic embargoes like those imposed in his childhood under Saddam Hussein do not work ...

Iraqi director Hasan Hadi's first feature The President's Cake has won the second edition of the Cannes Directors' Fortnight People's Choice audience award. New York-based Hadi has tapped into his ...

Perhaps the most surprising thing about today’s world premiere of The President’s Cake in the Directors Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival is that it isn’t in the main official ...

Sales agency Films Boutique has closed two key territories on Hasan Hadi’s “The President’s Cake” ahead of its world premiere at Cannes Film Festival.

Hasan Hadi, the first filmmaker from Iraq to be selected for the prestigious Cannes Festival, said that economic embargoes like those imposed in his childhood under Saddam Hussein do not ...

Sales agency Films Boutique has closed two key territories on Iraqi writer/director Hasan Hadi’s “The President’s Cake” ahead of its world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight during the ...