"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.
Title | Laila's Birthday |
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Year | 2009 |
Genre | Drama |
Country | Netherlands, Tunisia, Palestinian Territory |
Studio | Cinema Production Center, Cinétéléfilms, Sweetwater Pictures, Fortissimo Films, BrunBro Films |
Cast | Mohammad Bakri, Areen Omari, Nour Zoubi, Saleh Bakri, Walid Abed Elsalam, Mahmoud Awadd |
Crew | Mohamed Habib Attia (Producer), Peter van Vogelpoel (Producer), Rashid Masharawi (Producer), Michael J. Werner (Co-Producer), Wouter Barendrecht (Co-Producer), Denis Wigman (Associate Producer) |
Keyword | palestine, birthday, taxi driver |
Release | Apr 09, 2009 |
Runtime | 71 minutes |
Quality | HD |
IMDb | 5.80 / 10 by 5 users |
Popularity | 1 |
Budget | 0 |
Revenue | 0 |
Language | العربية |