Release Date

09 Apr, 2009

Runtime

01:11: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

"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.

Original Title

عيد ميلاد ليلى

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Actors

Mohammad Bakri

Areen Omari

Nour Zoubi

Saleh Bakri

Walid Abed Elsalam

Mahmoud Awadd

Karma Zoubi

Khaled Horani

Hossine Nakhla

Ahmad Abu Sal'oum

Housam Abu A'ishe

Crew

Mohamed Habib Attia

Rashid Masharawi

Peter van Vogelpoel

Hala Abu Sway

Wouter Barendrecht

Pascale Chavance

Mayssoun Sharqawi

Manal Hilani

Danny van Spreuwel

Néstor Sanz

Sami Bel Arbi

Kaies Sellami

Issa J. Qumsyah

Georgina Asfour