Laila in Haifa

Laila in Haifa is a 2020 Israeli-French drama film directed by Amos Gitai.^[2] It was selected to be shown in the main competition section of the 77th Venice International Film Festival.^[3][4]

Laila in Haifa
Film poster
Directed by	Amos Gitai
Written by	Amos Gitai Marie-José Sanselme
Produced by	Amos Gitai Laurent Truchot Catherine Dussart
Starring	Maria Zreik Khawla Ibraheem Bahira Ablassi Naama Preis Tsahi Halevi Makram J. Khoury
Cinematography	Éric Gautier
Edited by	Yuval Orr
Music by	Aleksey Kochetkov
Production companies	Agav Films CDP United King Films [he]
Release date	7 September 2020 (2020-09-07) (Venice)
Running time	99 minutes[1]
Countries	Israel France
Languages	Hebrew Arabic English

The events of the film take place over one night in a club in the port city of Haifa. The film offers a snapshot of life in one of the last spaces in Israel where Israelis and Palestinians routinely engage in face-to-face relationships.^[5]

Cast

• Tsahi Halevi as Gil
• Maria Zreik [it] as Laila
• Khawla Ibraheem as Khawla
• Bahira Ablassi as Bahira
• Naama Preis as Naama
• Hana Laszlo as Hanna
• Makram Khoury as Kamal
• Clara Khoury as Roberta
• Hisham Sulliman as Hisham
• Tom Baum as Tom
• Amir Khoury as Amir
• Asher Lax as Asher
• Andrzej Seweryn as Andre