St. Louis International Film Fest
As another example of Union Avenue’s commitment to the arts, we are sponsoring “Laila’s Birthday,” one of the films in the interfaith sidebar of the upcoming St. Louis International Film Festival (Nov 12-22):
The best film yet from acclaimed Palestinian writer-director Rashid Masharawi (“Waiting,” “Curfew”), “Laila’s Birthday” is a wry, comedic vignette, offering a portrait of ordinary people living in impossible circumstances in contemporary Ramallah. Abu Laila, a judge forced to work as a taxi driver when the government runs out of funds to pay his salary, struggles to get through his workday so he can hurry home for his daughter’s seventh birthday. The Village Voice’s Ella Taylor writes: “Part Tati, part Chaplin, part absurdist satire in the manner of Palestinian director Elia Suleiman (‘Chronicle of a Disappearance’), ‘Laila’s Birthday’ is beautifully shot and overlaid with a spare, lyrical score that lends rueful emphasis to Masharawi’s exasperated fidelity to a chronically malfunctioning city.”
Join us for a showing of this film at the Frontenac ( Lindbergh Boulevard and Clayton Road) on Sunday Nov. 15 at 5pm.
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