Red velvet cake on white stand with slice cut out on plate - Lew Robertson/Getty Images With the soft and luxurious cream cheese icing and that gorgeous, bold red color you see as you slide out that ...

Have you ever heard of "cakebarring"? Otherwise, known as baking a cake, bringing it to a bar, and hoping it will help you get a date? Well, that's a strangely true story that is getting loosely ...

In “The President’s Cake,” something as simple as baking is a monumental task, especially for Lamia, a 9-year-old girl living in Iraq during the 1990s. During this time, baking a cake isn’t as ...

The newcomer’s tragicomic debut, inspired by his childhood under Saddam Hussein, earns raves and the only audience prize across all Cannes sections. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Iraqi ...

We meet Jane and Corinne who work together in the corporate world although in two vastly different positions. Jane is in the mail room and has law school aspirations while Corinne works for the ...

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 ...

There's nothing sweeter than the family you choose for yourself. That's at the core of "Sitting In Bars With Cake." Based on the real story of Jane (played so sweetly by Yara Shahidi) and Corinne ...

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, ...

The film was made in response to an evening during which a number of male members of Chicagos experimental film scene gathered at JoAnns house and proceeded to ignore both her and the chocolate cake ...