The President's Cake
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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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.
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