BAGHDAD (AP) – A Shiite militant group threatened U.S. interests in Iraq on Thursday as part of the backlash over an anti-Islam film it described as “heinous.” Iranian-backed Asaib Ahl al-Haq leader ...
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 ...
When Iraqi helmer-writer Hasan Hadi nabbed the Golden Camera for best first feature at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival with "The President's Cake," Iranian director Jafar Panahi, winner of the main ...
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 ...
A harrowing 2006 Navy SEAL mission in Ramadi, Iraq, comes to brutally authentic life in “Warfare,” the latest collaboration between “Civil War” director Alex Garland and military veteran Ray Mendoza.
The new A24 film “Warfare,” created by Navy SEAL veteran Ray Mendoza and the critically acclaimed director Alex Garland, is not just a war movie — it is an effort to accurately depict a 2006 operation ...
Hasan Hadi, Director of ‘The President’s Cake,’ on the Journey of Making Iraq’s First Film at Cannes
Iraqi director Hasan Hadi’s debut feature, “The President’s Cake,” which screens in Directors’ Fortnight, is the first film from Iraq at to play in Cannes. Set in Iraq the 1990s, it also “fills a gap, ...
AMMAN, Jordan, April 1 (UNHCR) - Nader and Ala'* were delighted when "The Hurt Locker" won this year's Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director. Not only did the film about a gung-ho bomb disposal ...
"A variety of Iraq war movies are being told from different perspectives, different voices, different time frames in the war," said Scranton, whose film was on the short list for Academy Award ...
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‘Warfare' Review: Alex Garland's Iraq War Film Is Full Of Bombastic Aestheticism That Leaves You Feeling Empty
The legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami once wryly remarked that he prefers "the films that put their audience to sleep in the theater." Frequently taken out of context, Kiarostami's ...
A film resulting from a unique collaboration between American and Iraqi filmmakers will be shown in Napa at 7:30 p.m., on Nov. 8. The showing of "The Dreams of Sparrows," described as the first ...
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