Laila's Birthday (عيد ميلاد ليلى) 16 years old

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.

Credits

Laila's Birthday Cast

Name Character
Saleh Bakri He was 30, now 47 years old as Former Prisoner
Areen Omari She was 55, now 71 years old as Um Laila
Mohammad Bakri He was 54, now 71 years old as Abu Laila

Laila's Birthday Crew

Name Department
Rashid Masharawi as Director. He was 46 (now 62) years old Directing
Rashid Masharawi as Screenplay. He was 46 (now 62) years old Writing
Laila's Birthday poster
Laila's Birthday (16 years)

  • Release day: Tuesday, January 01, 2008
  • Runtime: 71 minutes