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 ...

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

Retired Lt. Gen Mark Hertling tells the Bulwark he’s seen enough misuse of ‘intelligence’ during his stint in the Iraq War to ...

Perhaps the most surprising thing about today’s world premiere of The President’s Cake in the Directors Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival is that it isn’t in the main official ...

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 ...

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 ...