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Hasan Hadi, Director of ‘The President’s Cake,’ on the Journey of Making Iraq’s First Film at Cannes
Hasan Hadi, director of ‘The President’s Cake,’ discusses the journey of making Iraq's first film at Cannes.
The film follows a 9-year-old girl named Lamia who gets picked at school to bake Saddam Hussein’s birthday cake and must become very resourceful to find the necessary ingredients or face the consequences. The director, who grew up in southern Iraq during wartime before traveling to the U.S. where he is now an adjunct professor at NYU’s Graduate Film Program, spoke to Variety about his extraordinary feat. But I’m positive that in a few years, or decades, this will change because now we are finally open to receiving all these films and I think people will outgrow the commercial space and veer into more authentic and original storytelling.
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