Cinema: The President's Cake

Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire

Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire, Ireland

Hasan Hadi’s assured debut follows nine-year-old Lamia, chosen by lottery to bake a birthday cake for Saddam Hussein during 1990s Iraq, where international sanctions have brought hunger and hardship. Language : Arabic (5pm - Open Captions*, 8pm - subtitled) Duration : 105mins Cert : 12A Director : Hasan Hadi Cast : Banin Ahmad Nayyef, Sajad Mohamad Qasem, Waheed Thabet Khreibat *Includes Open Captions for d/Deaf and hard of hearing audiences, displaying subtitled dialogue and other auditory information not conveyed in speech.