Documentary *How to Feed a Dictator* opens at Tribeca, and runs 95 minutes, directed by Andrew Neel. It follows five chefs who cooked for tyrants such as Kim Jong‑il, Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin and Pol Pot. The film layers kitchen routines with the brutal politics of their patrons, asking whether a cook can ever be more than a hired hand.

Chef Keo Samoun recalls serving fish, fruit and rice at Pol Pot’s gravesite, revering the man who arranged her marriage. Italian pizzaiolo Ermanno Furlanis describes surveillance while perfecting olives on Kim Jong‑il’s pizza, and Ugandan cook Charles Otonde Odera tells how serving Idi Amin’s favorite roasted goat earned him a Mercedes, a car each year, and a death sentence after a child fell ill.

The documentary pairs graphic butchery with opulent banquets, forcing viewers to confront how ordinary labor sustains terror. Interviews reveal chefs rationalized luxury—cars, passports, steady pay as “a great gig,” yet many later mourned lost conscience. By exposing these hidden collaborations, How to Feed a Dictator shows that culinary service can silently buttress today’s modern authoritarian regimes.