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Drama • 2025 • 106 min • Teen (13+)

While people across 1990s Iraq struggle to survive the war and food shortages, Saddam Hussein requires each school in the country to prepare a cake to celebrate his birthday. Despite her efforts to avoid getting picked, 9-year-old Lamia is chosen among her classmates. The young girl must now use her wits and imagination to gather ingredients for the mandatory cake or face the consequences.
Rahim AlHaj • Waheed Thabet Khreibat • Baneen Ahmad Nayyef
While people across 1990s Iraq struggle to survive the war and food shortages, Saddam Hussein requires each school in the country to prepare a cake to celebrate his birthday. Despite her efforts to avoid getting picked, 9-year-old Lamia is chosen among her classmates. The young girl must now use her wits and imagination to gather ingredients for the mandatory cake or face the consequences.
Rahim AlHaj • Waheed Thabet Khreibat • Baneen Ahmad Nayyef
The film critiques authoritarian rule and the suffering it inflicts, while also implicitly criticizing Western economic sanctions for exacerbating a humanitarian crisis and disproportionately affecting the poor, aligning with left-leaning critiques of power structures and foreign policy.
The movie features an authentic Iraqi cast, reflecting its setting and story. Its narrative critiques an authoritarian regime and its impact on a child's life, rather than explicitly focusing on traditional identities as defined in a Western DEI context.
Based on available information, *The President's Cake* (2025) does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The film's narrative centers on a child's quest to bake a cake in 1990s Iraq, focusing on themes of survival and authoritarianism, with no references to LGBTQ+ content in any descriptions or reviews.
Based on available information, 'The President's Cake' does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. Plot summaries and descriptions focus on a young girl's efforts to bake a cake in 1990s Iraq, with no mention of gender-related elements. Therefore, the film's net impact on the portrayal of transsexual characters is N/A.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film is an original work, not an adaptation of existing source material or a biopic. Therefore, no characters have a pre-established canonical or historical gender from which to be swapped.
The film is an original screenplay with no prior source material, meaning its characters had no pre-established race before this production. Therefore, no race swap can occur as there is no prior canon to deviate from.
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