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Cannes favorite ‘The President’s Cake’ is a fable with real-world immediacy  The Christian Science Monitor

A Taste of The President’s Cake  Jacobin

History in Fragments: Samir Jamal Aldin's Iraqi Odyssey  The Brooklyn Rail

‘The President’s Cake’ Review: An Iraqi Schoolgirl’s Odyssey Among Grown-ups Is a Tragicomic Gem  The Hollywood Reporter

Hasan Hadi on shooting debut film The President’s Cake in Iraq  The Skinny

The President’s Cake review: Operation dessert | Sight and Sound  BFI

'The President's Cake' Cannes Review: Hasan Hadi's Heart-Tugger in Saddam's Iraq  Variety

Review: ‘Iraqi Odyssey’ Shows the Arc of a Family and a Country (Published 2015)  The New York Times

Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: The President’s Cake, C...  The Observer

‘The President’s Cake’ Review: Hasan Hadi’s Warm and Heart-Tugging Tale Sends Dutiful Kids on an Odyssey in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq  IMDb

'Iraqi Odyssey' film review: a spellbinding affair  The Desert Sun

Oscars 2026: All the Arab films submitted for Best International Feature  The National

Interview with filmmaker Samir: An Iraqi odyssey  Qantara.de

‘Iraqi Odyssey’: Film Review  The Hollywood Reporter

'Iraqi Odyssey' Review: Samir's Overlong But Engrossing Doc  Variety

Europa: An Iraqi odyssey across the Turkish-Bulgarian border  The New Arab

Rough Seeing: Gianfranco Rosi's Fire At Sea  The Brooklyn Rail

‘Baghdad in My Shadow’: Film Review  The Hollywood Reporter

Berlin: ‘Citizenfour’ Director Laura Poitras Named to Documentary Jury  The Hollywood Reporter

‘Burning Voice’ Goes Inside Tamara Amer’s Fight for Iraqi Women’s Rights: “I Won’t Shut Up”  The Hollywood Reporter

Directors' Fortnight Prizes: 'The President Cake' Takes Audience Award  Variety

My Lost Country: The fate of Iraqi culture and society  World Socialist Web Site

The Real Military History Behind the New Iraq War Film 'Warfare'  Military.com

February’s new movies include rehab facilities, 1990s Iraq and maybe an apocalypse  The Week

‘Shōgun’s Cosmo Jarvis on ‘Warfare’ and ‘The Odyssey'  NME

Culture TV Giant Arte France Boards Nova, Miyu Project ‘Flavors Of Iraq’ (EXCLUSIVE)  Variety

Why a Navy SEAL Vet Relived His Iraq War 'Nightmare' to Make the Harrowing Movie Warfare (Exclusive)  People.com

The Best Iraq War Movies, Ranked  Military.com