The President’s Cake (12A) (S)

Storyline

Iraq/Qatar/USA 2025.  While people across 1990’s Iraq struggle to survive, Lamia, a 9-year old girl,  has been selected to prepare a cake to celebrate the President’s birthday. In a landscape of fear and scarcity, where basic ingredients are nearly  impossible to find, Lamia sets out on a determined journey throughout the big city in search of eggs, flour, and sugar. Accompanied by her grandmother, her loyal friend Saeed and her pet rooster Hindi, she navigates  vendors and police officers along the way. A tenderly crafted, often devastating portrait of childhood in rural Iraq.  Running time 105 minutes.  Arabic with subtitles.