Gangs of Wasseypur. Parte 1

Mientras la gente lucha a diario por sobrevivir bajo las sanciones en el Iraq de Sadam, Lamia, una niña de nueve años, debe usar su ingenio para reunir los ingredientes de la tarta obligatoria para celebrar el cumpleaños del presidente Sadam Husein o atenerse a las consecuencias: la cárcel o la muerte.

• 2025Asia Pacific Screen Awards · Best Youth FilmBest Youth Film — Hasan Hadi and Leah Chen Baker · nominada
• 2025CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival · Crouching Tigers / International competitionInternational Ecumenical Jury Award — The President's Cake
• 2025CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival · Crouching Tigers / International competitionEmeric Pressburger Prize — The President's Cake · nominada
• 2025CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival · Crouching Tigers / International competitionCICAE Jury Award — The President's Cake
• 2025CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival · Crouching Tigers / International competitionFIPRESCI Jury Award for Best International Film — The President's Cake
• 2025Directors' Fortnight · Directors' FortnightAudience Award / Choix du Public — Hasan Hadi
• 2025Festival de Cannes · Directors' Fortnight · estreno mundialselección
• 2025Festival de Cannes · Caméra d'OrCaméra d'Or — Hasan Hadi
• 2025Hamptons International Film Festival · Narrative competitionBest Narrative Feature — The President's Cake
• 2025Stockholm International Film Festival · Stockholm CompetitionBest Debut — Hasan Hadi
• 2026Academy Awards · Best International Feature FilmBest International Feature Film shortlist — Iraq / The President's Cake · nominada

Ambientada en Iraq under Saddam Hussein, including Baghdad and the Mesopotamian Marshes, 1990–1999 · Mesopotamian Marshes, 1990–1999 · Baghdad, 1990–1999

• Rodada en Iraq — The director states the film was shot entirely in Iraq.
• Mesopotamian Marshes, southern Iraq — Principal real locations; the director says shooting used real locations, especially the Mesopotamian Marshes.
• Baghdad — Reported as one of the places where the film was shot; Baghdad coordinate from Wikidata Q1530.
• Ziggurat of Ur, Dhi Qar Governorate — The director says the checkpoint scene uses the Ziggurat of Ur as the background.
• Restaurant associated with Saddam Hussein's youth — The director says the restaurant scene was shot in the restaurant where Saddam Hussein used to eat when young; no precise name or city found in the checked sources.