Review: ‘The President’s Cake’ — a bittersweet journey through Nineties Iraq

DHAHRAN: You know a film is special when it simultaneously elicits sobs and laughter from an audience. Iraqi filmmaker Hasan Hadi’s debut feature “The President’s Cake,” which screened at last week’s Saudi Film Festival, is special. It’s set in the Iraq in which Hadi grew up under the tyranny of former President Saddam Hussein’s regime.

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