Watch The President's Cake (2025) together, long-distance

road movie · drama film · 105 min

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About the film

The President's Cake (Arabic: مملكة القصب[needs translation]) is a 2025 Arabic-language drama film written and directed by Hasan Hadi. Set in rural Iraq during the Gulf War, it follows the nine-year-old Lamia (Baneen Ahmad Nayyef), who is chosen to bake a cake to celebrate Saddam Hussein's birthday alongside her classmates. The film had its world premiere at the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on 16 May, where it won the section's Audience Award and the Caméra d'Or. It was selected as the Iraqi entry for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards, making the December shortlist. It was released theatrically in the United States by Sony Pictures Classics on 6 February 2026.

Where it streams

• Netflix streams in your country
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How to watch it together from different places

Each of you opens The President's Cake on your own account. Herae keeps the two players in sync, so a pause or a skip happens for both of you, and puts a video call in the corner of the film so you can see each other react.

How watching together long-distance works

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