This event is in the past.It took place on January 27, 2026 at Les Lumières.
A 9-year-old Iraqi girl must bake a cake for Saddam Hussein's birthday—an absurd, quietly heartbreaking mission through 1990s Baghdad to find ingredients that barely exist.
Social fable
Intimate cinema
Dictatorial Iraq
Child's perspective
Tips
🎬in the spirit of Kiarostami's 'Where Is the Friend's Home?'
🏆won the Caméra d'Or at Cannes
💬live post-film discussion with director Hasan Hadi
Le Gâteau du Président — Les Lumières
Nanterre
A 9-year-old Iraqi girl must bake a cake for Saddam Hussein's birthday—an absurd, quietly heartbreaking mission through 1990s Baghdad to find ingredients that barely exist.
Social fable
Intimate cinema
Dictatorial Iraq
Child's perspective
Tips
🎬in the spirit of Kiarostami's 'Where Is the Friend's Home?'
🏆won the Caméra d'Or at Cannes
💬live post-film discussion with director Hasan Hadi
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