Laila's Birthday
(2009)

Released: 2009-04-09

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"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.

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Mohammad Bakri

as Abu Laila

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Areen Omari

as Um Laila

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Saleh Bakri

as Former Prisoner

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Walid Abed Elsalam

as Director in the Ministry of Justice

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Karma Zoubi

as Woman passenger to the hospital

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Khaled Horani

as Policeman in the police station

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Hossine Nakhla

as Donkey's Owner

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Ahmad Abu Sal'oum

as the second taxi driver

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Housam Abu A'ishe

as Gas Station Employee

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Denis Wigman

Associate Producer

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Othmar Sweers

Associate Producer

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Nour Eddine Sail

Associate Producer

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Dimitri de Clercq

Associate Producer

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Tarek Ben Abdallah

Director of Photography

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Néstor Sanz

Director of Photography

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Areen Omari

Line Producer

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Kaies Sellami

Original Music Composer

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Issa J. Qumsyah

Sound Engineer

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Georgina Asfour

Script Supervisor

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Mayssoun Sharqawi

Wardrobe Supervisor

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May Ao'de

Production Manager

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Manal Hilani

Makeup Artist

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