The Iraqi-American artist’s work has been brought into dialogue with ancient artefacts in a first for the Athens-based museum ...

The President’s Cake, the first Iraqi film to play at Cannes Film Festival, has won the People’s Choice award in the independent Directors’ Fortnight sidebar. Launched last year in ...

Cannes, France (IraqiNews.com) – Iraqi film The President’s Cake (كعكة الرئيس), directed by New York-based Iraqi filmmaker Hassan Hadi, has won the prestigious Audience Choice Award ...

Iraqi director Hasan Hadi’s first feature The ... socio-economic crisis provoked by international sanctions, for the film. The drama follows nine-year-old Lamia who gets the short straw of ...

What’s singular abut the film however, critics’ agree is the knowing detail and emotion brought to the film by Hadi, who grew up in a southern Iraq of the 1990s wracked by food shortages , due ...

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 ...

New York-based Hadi has tapped into his own childhood in southern Iraq in the 1990s, growing up under the regime of President Saddam Hussein and the socio-economic crisis provoked by international ...

One of the hidden gems of Cannes' 78th edition has come from an unexpected country, selected for the first time at the world’s biggest film festival: Iraq. Premiering in the festival’s parallel ...

At the Cannes Film Festival 2025, the Baghdad Film Institute (BFI) announced a strategic partnership with 1001 Media, Iraq's leading digital streaming platform. This collaboration aims to foster the ...