‘Yes, they would execute a child’ : the film about a girl who has to bake a birthday cake for (…)

Warm, funny and heartbreaking, The President’s Cake tells the story of a brutal ruler and a girl forced to make him a present in a time of sanctions-induced hardship. Its Iraqi director Hasan Hadi remembers his own fearful childhood There were no cinemas in Iraq in the 1990s, when Hasan Hadi was (…)