Through recipes, rituals and remembrance, a portrait emerges of power, manipulation and the quiet ways ordinary people become entangled in extraordinary violence. Loyalty, denial, fear, even thrill, each chef carries their experience differently, yet together they reveal how dictatorship gets under the skin of everyone it touches.
How to Feed a Dictator is darkly funny, deeply human and impossible to shake, proof that the most revealing place to understand a regime is not the war room but the kitchen.
Content guidance: contains some graphic and disturbing scenes.
Documentary
From bold creative non-fiction, investigative thrillers and vital contemporary issues, Documentary at Showroom is dedicated to discovering, sharing and discussing the stories of our times.
Director Andrew Neel
Year 2026
Duration
1h 35m
Language English, Spanish, Swahili, Arabic, Khmer with English subtitles