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The President's Cake (12A)
Tavistock Place
Plymouth
Devon
PL4 8AT
Opening Times
| Season (20 Feb 2026 - 26 Feb 2026) |
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Prices
Ticket Prices
Standard £9.50
Matinees £7.50
Over 66 £8.25
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Friends 10% discount and £6.50 on Tuesdays.
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About us
Fri 20, 8.30pm
Sat 21, 5.30pm
Tue 24, 6pm
Wed 25, 2.30pm
Wed 25, 8.30pm
Thu 26, 6pm
Dir. Hasan Hadi, Iraq/US/Qatar, 2025, 105 mins. In Arabic with English subtitles. Cast. Baneen Ahmad Nayyef, Sajad Mohamad Qasem, Waheed Thabet Khreibat.
In 1990s Iraq, young Lamia lives with her ailing grandmother, Bibi, eking out an existence in a remote village. Disaster strikes when Lamia is 'honoured' with baking the cake for her school class's mandatory celebration of Saddam Hussein's birthday. In other circumstances, this might be an innocuous responsibility, but Bibi and Lamia can't afford the ingredients, and the last family that didn't comply was dragged through the streets.
A child's eye view of a dictatorship, The President's Cake skilfully navigates between the comic and the tragic.
Hasan Hadi's heartbreaking The President's Cake, a multiple award winner at Cannes, is an unforgettable look at a country crushed by poverty and international sanctions and ruled by a sadistic, greedy, and vain tyrant.
