Overview

• Hasan Hadi’s debut feature, 'The President’s Cake,' won the Directors’ Fortnight People’s Choice award, marking Iraq’s first official selection at Cannes.
• The People’s Choice award, introduced in 2023 in partnership with the Chantal Akerman Foundation, includes a €7,500 cash prize and celebrates audience-championed films.
• Valéry Carnoy’s 'Wild Foxes' earned the Europa Cinemas Label for Best European Film and the SACD Coup de Cœur prize for its French-language screenplay.
• ‘The President’s Cake’ explores 1990s Iraq through the story of a young girl tasked with baking a birthday cake for Saddam Hussein during a period of severe shortages.
• ‘Wild Foxes’ follows a young male boxer grappling with physical and emotional challenges after a life-changing accident at a sports academy.