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Laila's Birthday (2009)

05/29/2009 (US) Drama 1h 11m
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Overview

"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.

  1. Rashid Masharawi

    Director, Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

  1. Mohammad Bakri

    Mohammad Bakri

    Abu Laila

  2. Areen Omari

    Areen Omari

    Um Laila

  3. Nour Zoubi

    Laila

  4. Saleh Bakri

    Saleh Bakri

    Former Prisoner

  5. Walid Abed Elsalam

    Director in the Ministry of Justice

  6. Mahmoud Awadd

    Mechanic

  7. Karma Zoubi

    Woman passenger to the hospital

  8. Khaled Horani

    Policeman in the police station

  9. Hossine Nakhla

    Donkey's Owner

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Laila's Birthday
Laila's Birthday

Original Title عيد ميلاد ليلى

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Original Language Arabic

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