For Iraqis who lived through the 1990s, dictator Saddam Hussein's birthday on April 28 was a disorientating day of celebration and propaganda. - Tragic 'randomness' - Hadi drew on his own memories of ...

Asawer film premieres in Baghdad under the Prime Minister’s drama support grant, highlighting Iraqi forces’ sacrifices against ISIS.

Hailed by Variety as a "warm and heart-tugging tale," Hasan Hadi's "The President's Cake," Iraq's first film selected for Cannes, has won the Directors' Fortnight People's Choice prize, the first ...

Iraqi director Hasan Hadi’s first feature The President’s Cake has won the second edition of the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight People’s Choice audience award. New York-based Hadi has tapped into his own ...

BAGHDAD -- Husham al-Kanani practically grew up in a Baghdad movie theater, watching films at the cinema his father managed. Kanani relives that time only in brief moments. He walks into the few ...

VENICE (Reuters) - In "The Hurt Locker," the latest film about the war in Iraq, a bomb disposal expert takes risks beyond the call of duty as he comes to realize that only one thing makes him feel ...

In a paper she published last year, American University's Pat Aufderheide estimated that there have been dozens of Iraq documentaries released since the war began in 2003. To make sense of this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hasan Hadi used his own memories of 1990s Iraq for the film (Xavier GALIANA) (Xavier GALIANA/AFP/AFP) For Iraqis who lived through ...