For Iraqis who lived through the 1990s, dictator Saddam Hussein's birthday on April 28 was a disorientating day of celebration and propaganda. - Tragic 'randomness' - Hadi drew on his own memories of ...

Hasan Hadi’s film The President’s Cake centres on a deceptively simple premise: every year, schoolchildren were selected to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From nuclear fallout to the fall of a dictator. The feature is one of a number of projects under a new partnership between ...

Fremantle and Sinestra, the production outfit from director Johan Renck and producer Michael Parets, are in development on feature film “The Prisoner in His Palace.” The film will be based on Will ...

Irish actor Barry Keoghan is set to star in a new film about the final days of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, according to a report in The Hollywood Reporter. Keoghan will reunite with ...

Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A film whose ingredients include eggs, flour, sugar and economic sanctions sounds improbable, but The President’s Cake takes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hasan Hadi used his own memories of 1990s Iraq for the film (Xavier GALIANA) (Xavier GALIANA/AFP/AFP) For Iraqis who lived through ...