On Tues! See The President's Cake film

Let's see this film fest fave! The story: While people across 1990's Iraq struggle to survive, 9-year old Lamia has been selected to prepare a cake to celebrate the President's birthday.

Tomatometer: 99%. "Outstanding. The reality it portrays of a dictatorship, seen through the experiences of a child. The film blends a striking sense of street level realism, political commentary & the poetic nostalgia for the innocence of youth.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/PNkNtONmQqI?si=RhWrLkdH6DGLiV1X

I strongly recommend buying your tkt ahead as this is a 35 seat theatre & may sell out.

5 pm The President's Cake (2025, 104 mins, Arabic w Eng subtitles) More info/BUY TIX($14 or less) HERE: https://viff.org/whats-on/the-presidents-cake/book/0UJuanl6XS/
We'll try to sit in the last 2 rows of this theatre, towards the left. I'll post our exact location in the Comments. Arrive 15 mins early if you'd like to sit with the group. Please say Hi when you arrive so I know you're here! :)

We’ll have a short chat about the film afterwards.

I hope you can come to this eye-opening film!

**A friendly reminder this meetup group has member dues of $5 a yr to cover the subscription fee charged by meetup ($450-ish annually). If you enjoy receiving these film notices, here's how to pay your $5 dues for 2026: 1. Give your organizer $5 cash at your next meetup. They will put a note in the meetup Comments re your payment. 2. Etransfer me (Karen K) directly. Msg me for details. Thank you!

More fun things:
*See the cool & sweet film "DJ Ahmet" at Alliance Francaise on Thurs, Mar 26 at 2 pm with Ian Merkel & the Foreign Film Society https://van4film.org/ .
*On Wed, Apr 8 Vancr Opera is doing their next FREE Opera Adventures at the Vancr Public Library downtown. Info/reserve at https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/699f54d81e64afd01e5e081a then msg me & we'll try to sit together. (it's almost sold out)