As a child growing up in 1990s Iraq, Hasan Hadi feared one particular day each year: when teachers would pick children who had to prepare gifts for Saddam Hussein's birthday, a compulsory national ...

Hailed by Variety as a "warm and heart-tugging tale," Hasan Hadi's "The President's Cake," Iraq's first film selected for Cannes, has won the Directors' Fortnight People's Choice prize, the first ...

The drama, which has its world premiere at Cannes, centers on a soldier who seeks out the family he devastated - and what it takes to make a combat film that tells the truth.

For Iraqis who lived through the 1990s, dictator Saddam Hussein's birthday on April 28 was a disorientating day of celebration and propaganda. Parties were staged across the sanctions-hit country to ...

EXCLUSIVE: Cairo-based film and talent studio MAD Solutions has signed an agreement with the Iraqi Film Fund to handle sales and distribution of upcoming features from Iraq and promote filmmakers from ...

Hasan Hadi's debut feature film is a neorealist look at how life under Saddam Hussein and sanctions in 1990s Iraq destroyed children's innocence. Iraqi film draws on Saddam-era childhood in tale of ...