Iraqi filmmaker Hasan Hadi has won the Directors’ Fortnight People’s Choice Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his poignant, darkly comic debut feature The President’s Cake. The €7,500 ...

Iraqi director Hasan Hadi’s debut feature, “The President’s Cake,” which screens in Directors’ Fortnight, is the first film from Iraq at to play in Cannes. Set in Iraq the 1990s, it also ...

Iraqi director Hasan Hadi's first feature The President's Cake has won the second edition of the Cannes Directors' Fortnight People's Choice audience award. New York-based Hadi has tapped into his ...

Aptly then, and in the spirit of resistance, Iraqi filmmaker Hasan Hadi opens his debut feature, “The President’s Cake,” with a clairvoyant line from Gilgamesh, as the camera sails across a ...

Another notable name at TIFF will be Sean Baker, who's coming off four Oscar wins for Anora (Best Picture, Best Director, ...

With “The President’s Cake,” Hadi has done exactly that, closely following his lead-character Lamia (Baneen Ahmed Nayyef, in an impossibly soulful performance). More from Variety ...

Director-screenwriter: Hasan Hadi Cast: Banin Ahmad Nayef, Sajad Mohamad Qasem, Waheed Thabet Khreibat, Rahim Alhaj Running time: 1 hr 42 min Best of Deadline ...

Sales agency Films Boutique has closed two key territories on Iraqi writer/director Hasan Hadi’s “The President’s Cake” ahead of its world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight during the ...

Hasan Hadi’s first feature, an Iraq-U.S.-Qatar production that includes well-known American filmmakers among its producers (Eric Roth, Chris Columbus, Marielle Heller), was filmed entirely in ...

Hasan Hadi, the first filmmaker from Iraq to be selected for the prestigious Cannes Festival, said that economic embargoes like those imposed in his childhood under Saddam Hussein do not ...

BAGHDAD — It’s been more than a month since Hassan Hadi watched as his co-workers were executed one by one at the Happiness Bakery, and he can’t stop replaying the moment when fate spared him.

Hadi 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.