A young girl holds a cockerel as she speaks to an older man in a market.

The President's Cake

Duration

1 hour 45 minutes

Language

Arabic (English subtitles)

Date

Fri 27 Feb - Thu 5 Mar 2026

Venue

Cinema

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Tickets:

Peak Screenings (after 6pm) £11. Concessions £9.50.
Off-Peak Screenings (before 6pm) £10.50. Concessions £9.
Under 26s £7.50 all screenings.
Wednesday matinees (before 4pm) £7.50.

Cast:

Baneen Ahmad Nayyef, Sajad Mohamad Qasem, Waheed Thabet Khreibat

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Recommended Age:

12A for infrequent strong language, child sexual abuse references, sexual threat

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In Hasan Hadi’s award-winning debut, a young girl is faced with the challenge of baking a cake for her school’s celebration of Saddam Hussein’s birthday.

Though considered a great honour, nine-year-old Lamia’s (Baneen Ahmed Nayyef) task feels impossible, as she and her grandmother Bibi (Waheeda Thabet Khreiba) already struggle to get by. But armed with a shopping list and her pet rooster, Lamia is determined to find the ingredients. A child’s eye view of life in a dictatorship, The President’s Cake skilfully navigates between the comic and the tragic.