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.
Release Date
April 9, 2009Runtime
71 minGenres
DramaDirected by
Rashid Masharawi, Georgina Asfour, Hanna AtallahScreenplay by
Rashid MasharawiLanguage
ArabicBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
Released
Cast
Videos
Laila’s Birthday Trailer HD - Rashid Masharawi - رشيد مشهراوي
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