Palestine/Tunisia/The
Netherlands—71 minutes
Written and
directed by Rashid Masharawi.
With
Mohamed Bakri, Areen Omari and Nour Zoubi.
In Arabic with
subtitles.
A
Palestinian father wants to make his daughter’s birthday a special one.
Laila’s Birthday follows the life of one father in a war-torn country in
a day that is anything but ordinary. For fathers and daughters everywhere.
Filmed in Ramallah. Produced by Mohamed Habib Attia, Peter van Vogelpoel
and Rashid Masharawi. Director of Photography: Tarek Ben Abdallah and
Nestor Sanz. From Sweetwater Pictures/CineTeleFilms/Cinema Production
Center/Fortissimo Films. A Kino International release.
