Laila's Birthday

"At eight o'clock, it's Laila's birthday, okay?" Palestinian judge turned cab driver Abu Laila's wife reminds her husband. But on his young daughter's birthday, like any day, Abu faces a nerve-wracking shift in a Ramallah yellow cab armed only with an ex-jurist's misplaced pride, a father's loyalty, and a sticker reminding passengers that smoking and carrying AK-47s are prohibited. Rather than address politics or document holy war heroics and villainy, Laila's Birthday focuses on the toll that the unending Palestinian-Israeli conflict extracts from civilians clinging to both employment and a semblance of normal life amidst chaos and corruption, missile attacks and bursts of gunfire.

Country:

Netherlands,

Tunisia,

Palestinian Territory

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

71 minutes

Year:

2009

Director:

Rashid Masharawi

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Company:

Cinema Production Center,

Cinétéléfilms,

Sweetwater Pictures,

Fortissimo Films,

BrunBro Films

Cast:

Abu Laila

Um Laila

Laila

Former Prisoner

Director in the Ministry of Justice

Crew:

Director

Screenplay

Producer

Producer

Producer