Laila's Birthday (2009)

Laila's Birthday (2009)

2009-04-09 Netherlands, Tunisia, Palestinian Territory 71 Min. PG-13
5.8 5 votes

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.

Cast

Mohammad Bakri is Abu Laila
Abu Laila
Areen Omari is Um Laila
Um Laila
Nour Zoubi is Laila
Laila
Saleh Bakri is Former Prisoner
Former Prisoner
Walid Abed Elsalam is Director in the Ministry of Justice
Director in the Ministry of Justice
Mahmoud Awadd is Mechanic
Mechanic
Karma Zoubi is Woman passenger to the hospital
Woman passenger to the hospital
Khaled Horani is Policeman in the police station
Policeman in the police station
Hossine Nakhla is Donkey's Owner
Donkey's Owner
Ahmad Abu Sal'oum is the second taxi driver
the second taxi driver
Housam Abu A'ishe is Gas Station Employee
Gas Station Employee

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