Iraqi director Hasan Hadi’s first feature The President’s Cake has won the second edition of the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight People’s Choice audience award. New York-based Hadi has tapped into his own ...

DOX in Copenhagen, comes amid a global backlash: "Extreme conservative forces are trying to push down the fight for women’s ...

Hasan Hadi's debut feature film is a neorealist look at how life under Saddam Hussein and sanctions in 1990s Iraq destroyed children's innocence. Iraqi film draws on Saddam-era childhood in tale of ...

For Iraqis who lived through the 1990s, dictator Saddam Hussein's birthday on April 28 was a disorientating day of celebration and propaganda. Parties were staged across the sanctions-hit country to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iraqi director Hasan Hadi’s first feature The President’s Cake has won the second edition of the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight ...

As a child growing up in 1990s Iraq, Hasan Hadi feared one particular day each year: when teachers would pick children who had to prepare gifts for Saddam Hussein's birthday, a compulsory national ...