Laila’s Birthday
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Laila's Birthday

On his young daughter’s birthday, like any day, Abu (Mohammed Bakri), a Palestinian former judge and current cab driver, faces a nerve-wracking shift in a Ramallah yellow cab armed only with an ex-jurist’s misplaced pride, and a father’s loyalty carrying AK-47’s are prohibited. Rather than address politics or document holy war heroics and villainy, LAILA’S BIRTHDAY focuses on the toll that the unending Israeli-Palestinian conflict extracts from civilians clinging to both employment and a semblance of normal life amidst chaos and corruption, missile attacks and bursts of gunfire.

Year: 2009

Time: 71 minutes

Watch the film’s trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hFLmBzGMjI&ab_channel=SWEETWATERPICTURES

Watch and purchase the film here: https://www.amazon.com/Lailas-Birthday-English-Subtitled-Mohammed/dp/B004D1CS84

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