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$10.85 including fees, plus tax
The President's Cake
April 20, 2026 2:00 PM
While people across 1990s Iraq struggle to survive the war and food shortages, the President requires each school in the country to prepare a cake to celebrate his birthday. Despite her efforts to avoid getting picked, 9-year-old Lamia is chosen among her classmates. The young girl must now use her wits and imagination to gather ingredients and prepare the mandatory cake.
105 min
Arabic with English Subtitles
Season Sponsor: Rastins Pharmacy
Film Date Sponsor: Retired Teachers of Ontario-Hamilton Wentworth Branch
Proceeds to the Demazenod Door Outreach
Winner of Cannes Directors' Fortnight Audience Award and the Golden Camera Award
11 Award wins out of 23 nominations.
A crowd-pleaser in the best sense, it overflows with empathy for its beleaguered people.Peter Rainer/Christian Science Monitor.This detail-rich and tremendously moving moral fable uncovers harsh realities in Iraqi society without departing from the earnest perspective of its knee-high protagonist, and without diminishing the dignity or value of her hopes and dreams. Isaac Feldberg/RogerEbert.comIt’s difficult to think of another debut that combines such crowd-pleasing sensibilities, political resonance, and cinematic sweep. Rory O'Connor/The Film Stage
Hadi tells an engaging story, brings complex and surprising characters to life, lends a locale an aesthetic iconography, and renders personal identity inextricable from the forces of history that shaped or deformed it. Richard Brody/The New Yorker
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