{"id":6723,"date":"2026-07-05T19:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T12:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/?p=6723"},"modified":"2026-07-05T19:49:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T12:49:48","slug":"the-presidents-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/the-presidents-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"The President&#8217;s Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE PRESIDENT&amp;apos;S CAKE - Official Trailer\" width=\"820\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YZ18OMlpOEw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>The President&#8217;s Cake<\/em> is a 2025 Arabic-language drama film written and directed by Hasan Hadi. It won the section&#8217;s Audience Award and the Cam\u00e9ra d&#8217;Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. It was selected as the Iraqi entry for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards, making the shortlist.<\/p>\n<p>While people across 1990&#8217;s Iraq struggle to survive, 9-year old Lamia has been selected to prepare a cake to celebrate the President&#8217;s birthday. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>Accompanied by her grandmother, her loyal friend Saeed, and her pet rooster Hindi, she navigates vendors and police officers along the way.<\/p>\n<h6>Drama<br \/>\nIraq, Qatar, United States<br \/>\n(Arabic, English subtitles) 105 Min<\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/presidentcake2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"463\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6724\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President&#8217;s Cake is a 2025 Arabic-language drama film written and directed by Hasan Hadi. It won the section&#8217;s Audience Award and the Cam\u00e9ra d&#8217;Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/presidentcake2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6726,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions\/6726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}