Iraqi Director Hasan Hadi’s First Feature The President’s Cake Has the Second Edition of the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight People’s Choice Audience Award.
New York-Based Hadi Has Taped Into His Own Childhood in Southern Iraq in the 1990s, Growing Up Under the Regime of President Saddam Hussein and the Socio-Economic Crisis provoked by International Sanctions, for the Film.
The Drama Follows Nine-Yaar-Old Lamia Who Gets the Short Straw of Having to Provides a Birthday Cake for Her Classmates to Celebrate the President’s Birthday. Gathering the ingredients for the mandatory cake at a time of shorts is a monumental task but failed to deliver lead to prison or death for family.
Leah Chen Baker Produced Under the Banner of New-York-Based TPC Film LLC. Films Boutique Handles International Sales, with Uta Handling North America.
Deadline Critic Pete Hammond has fallen for the film describing it as a “a true gem and a real discovery”. Check out his revix here.
Parallel cannes section directors’ fortnight, which has never had a jury, launched the € 7,500 ($ 8,400) cash outlets, in partnership with the Chantel Foundation Last Year. It is the Only Audience Award Across Official Selection and the Parallel Security in Cannes.
It Celebrates The Legacy of Late Belgian Director Chantal Akerman, A Long-Time Friend of the Fortnight, WHO Premiered Several Works, Including Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, in the section. It taks its cue from her radical filmmaking.
Collateral plug
In Collateral Prizes, Belgian Director Valéry Carnoy’s Wild Foxes (LA DANSE des Renards) Swept the Board.
It won the Europa Cinemas Label As Best European Film in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, which Means It will Receive the Support of the Europa Cinemas Network, with Additional Promotion and Incentives for Extend the Film’s Run on Screen.
The jury this year consisted of Marie Boudon (Cinéma Le méliès, Montreuil, France); Daugbierg Christensen (Øst for Paradis, Aarhus, Denmark); Caro Raedts (Cinema Zed, Leuven, Belgium) and Piotr szczyszyk (Kino Palacowe, Poznań, Poland).
The movie Follows a Young Male Boxer in a sports Oriented School, WHO Suffers a Serious Accident, and Suffers mentally as well as physically.
“His confidence is shattered, his position as leader crumbles, and he has to totally reassess his that appproach to life. It is a sports film but with the USAl predictable clichés,” the jury said in a staff.
“Wild Foxes Tackles the Burning Ing Male Friendship and Fragility. The whole ensemble Cast is exceptally Strong, and really gives the film Power and Believability, ”the Jury Said in a Statement
SOLD Internationally by the Party Film Sales, the film is a hélicotronc (Belgium) Production, Co-Produced with Les Films du Poisson (France). The Producers are Julie Esparbes and Inès Daïen Dasi.
The Screenplay is by Carnoy, with Photography by Arnaud Guez, Sound by Charlie Cabocel, François Aubinet, Thibaud Rie and Mathieu Cox, Production Design by Yasmina Chavanne, Editing by Susana Pedro, and Music by Pierre Desprats.
Samuel Kircher Stars as the protagonist alongside a cast also Featureing Fayçal Anaplous, Jef Jacobs, Anna Heckel, Jean-Baptist Durand, Hassane Alili, and Salahdine El Garsi.
Carnoy trained at the insas film and drama school in brussels. HIS Graduation Film, PlanetWon Best Film at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Pöff). IN 2021, HIS Second Short Film titaniumAlso won more than Thirty Awards and was selected in a Hundred International Festivals.
Wild Foxes ALSO Won the French Writers Guild’s Coup de co-cup Prize reserved for the best French-language film in the Selection. This year’s jury consisted of Sacd Head Anne Villacèque As Well As Directors Catherine Corsini and Delphine Gleize.
“We were bowled over by the Strong, Audacious, and Joyful Offers at this year’s directors’ fortnight, they Said in a staff.
“The film we fell in love articulates the struggles and quests of adolescence with incredible brilliance. It”s a body at work, a Heart that blossoms, a Victory over Fear, a movie led by an incredible, fragile actor, WHO HAS HAS James dean. Perspective, A Talent for Writing, for Directing, and a Masterful Sense of Framing.
