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Laila in Haifa is a 2020 Israeli-French drama film directed by Amos Gitai. It was selected to be shown in the main competition section of the 77th Venice International Film Festival. Cast
Sep 9, 2020 · A trendy night spot in Haifa becomes a symbolic meeting and dialoguing place for Palestinians and Israelis in Amos Gitai’s single-set drama, 'Laila in Haifa.'
It’s a heavy dark and humid evening in the port city of Haifa. We are entering a bar, supposedly to see an exhibition of photos by a militant Israeli photographer. Gil meets the director of the gallery Laila (which is an Arabic first name and in Hebrew a word that also means “night”).
- Amos Gitai
- 99’
- Hebrew, Arabic, English
Veteran Haifa-born filmmaker Amos Gitai is sufficiently enamored of the venue to have made a feature-length fictional celebration of its diversity and cultural import.
With an ensemble cast of both Israeli and Palestinian actors, LAILA IN HAIFA (A Night in Haifa) is a drama with wry humor set over one night in a club in the port town of Haifa.
Sep 11, 2020 · It follows the titular Laila (played by Maria Zreik), an Arabic name that also means “night” in Hebrew. She works at the hip nightspot Club Fattoush, whose feel crosses hedonistic nightlife with an adjoining gallery that showcases militant Palestinian art.
Sep 1, 2021 · Overview. The film was shot entirely in a nightclub, with an adjoining contemporary art gallery, whose customers are both Israelis and Palestinians, in one of Israel’s most open cities, Haifa. A long night in a place where the most diverse people meet: Jews, Muslims, gays, heterosexuals, transvestites; and three women, who in that ...
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