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.
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Cast
- Mohammad BakriAbu Laila
- Areen OmariUm Laila
- Nour ZoubiLaila
- Saleh BakriFormer Prisoner
- Walid Abed ElsalamDirector in the Ministry of Justice
- Mahmoud AwaddMechanic
- Karma ZoubiWoman passenger to the hospital
- Khaled HoraniPoliceman in the police station
- Hossine NakhlaDonkey's Owner
- Ahmad Abu Sal'oumthe second taxi driver
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