102 mins
The President's Cake
Festival Note
In 1990s Iraq, amid the UN sanctions that made resources scarce among the population, schoolgirl Lamia (Banin Ahmed Nayef) is randomly picked to make a cake for her class to celebrate Saddam Hussein’s birthday. She and her grandmother Bibi (Waheed Thabet Khreibat) head into town to find ingredients for the cake, and while Lamia is intent on her quest for ingredients, Bibi has other plans for her young granddaughter.
