The President's Cake

Category: Film

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