The President's Cake

About The President's Cake

While people across 1990’s Iraq struggle to survive, 9-year-old Lamia 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.

Hasan Hadi's The President's Cake is a 2026 drama film. Baneen Ahmed Nayyef takes the lead as Lamia, Sajad Mohamad Qasem as Saeed, Waheed Thabet Khreibat as Bibi, and Rahim AlHaj as Jasim.

It runs 106 minutes and was released in January 2026. Written by Hasan Hadi. Production companies include Maiden Voyage Pictures, Missing Piece Films, and Spark Features.

Members will find tragic, depressing, thoughtful, and dictatorship in it. American members can watch it on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads. It scores 7.4 out of 10 from 121 TMDB voters and it carries a PG-13 rating.

Better Days, The Hunger Games, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix make useful companions to The President's Cake.