EXCLUSIVE : Here’s your first domestic trailer for Cannes Caméra d’Or winner The President’s Cake by Iraqi director Hasan Hadi.

Sony Pictures will be opening the film for a qualifying run on December 12th and then will open in select theaters on February 6, 2026 before opening nationwide on February 27, 2026.

The drama follows nine-year-old Lamia who gets the short straw of having to provide a birthday cake for her classmates to celebrate the president’s birthday. Gathering the ingredients for the mandatory cake at a time of shortages is a monumental task but failure to deliver could lead to prison or death for her family.

New York-based Hadi tapped into his own childhood in southern Iraq in the 1990s, growing up under the regime of President Saddam Hussein and the socio-economic c

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