Hadi still has a photo of himself holding that bouquet.What: A bittersweet misadventure as two Iraqi kids are forced to assemble ingredients they can't afford to bake a cake for Saddam Hussein that he will never eat.Directed by: Iraqi filmmaker Hasan HadiStarring: Baneen Ahmad Nayyef, Sajad Mohamad Qasem, Waheed Thabet KhreibatWhen: In cinemas April 2Likely to make you feel: That kids everywhere should be free to feel unbothered joyAt the time, Iraq was crippled by sanctions imposed by the United Nations Security Council in the wake of Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990."We're talking severe scarcity of food, medications and clothes," Hadi recalls, speaking to ABC Arts from his apartment in New York City."If you wanted a new pen or pencils to go back to school, you couldn't get them," he says "But you definitely understand severe poverty."Many moons later, these memories form the basis of Hadi's beautiful-if-bittersweet debut feature, The President's Cake.Baneen Ahmad Nayyef and Sajad Mohamad Qasem play schoolmates Lamia and Saeed