THE PRESIDENT’S CAKE | مملكة القصب

USA | 2025 | COLOR | DCP | 102’ | ARABIC

DIRECTOR: Hasan Hadi
SCREENWRITER: Hasan Hadi
DoP: Tudor Vladimir Panduru
EDITOR: Andu Radu
PRINCIPAL CAST: Banin Ahmad Nayef, Sajad Mohamad Qasem, Waheed Thabet Khreibat, Rahim AlHaj

HASAN HADI
Iraqi writer/director. He grew up in southern Iraq, during wartime, and over the years worked in journalism, production, and as an adjunct professor at NYU's Graduate Film Program. He received the Gotham-Marcie Bloom Fellowship, the Black Family Production Prize and the Sloan Foundation Production Award. He was a 2022 Sundance Lab Fellow and the recipient of the 2022 Sundance/NHK Award. This is his feature debut.

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2025 The President’s Cake