President's Cake, The (Mamlaket al-qasab) (2025)

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Synopsis

Dir: Hasan Hadi. Arabic-language Drama. In 1990s Iraq, during strict rationing, a young girl (Baneen Ahmad Nayyef) is chosen to bake a birthday cake for the President's birthday--a task that is compulsory.

Content elements

• Infrequent use of the sexual expletive in a non-sexual; infrequent use of cursing
• Infrequent portrayals of threat to a child - little detail
• Infrequent portrayals of weapons violence - no blood or detail
• Infrequent portrayals of tobacco use in a recreational context

Thematic elements

• Life under dictatorship
• Power and control
• Perspectives on childhood

Classification rationale

Rated PG for coarse language, mature subject matter, and tobacco use

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