Kurdistan Cinematic Journey with Sangar Aghjalary

Cinema Reimagined - IMAX

Iraq's first-ever Cannes prizewinning director. A debut feature about a baker commissioned to create a cake for Saddam Hussein. Won the Camera d'Or — the single prize Cannes gives to the best first film across all sections and all countries. Not a sidebar award. The main first-feature prize at the biggest festival on the planet. The Academy had no awareness of it. No distribution. No nomination path. Iraqi cinema breaking through at Cannes for the first time in the festival's history and the Osc