"David & Layla" is an earnest, frequently funny comedy about stateless persons and the looming cliches that make Muslims and Jews so wary of each other. Written, produced and directed by Iraqi Kurdish ...

A comedic romance inspired by a real-life love story between a Jewish American man and a Kurdish Muslim woman, with dashes of erectile dysfunction, testicular torsion and international politics, ...

Sparks fly when a Jew and a Muslim fall in love in New York. David, a TV host of "Sex & Happiness", becomes smitten with the voluptuous Layla - a mysterious, sensual dancer. Layla turns out to be a ...

“David & Layla” wants so desperately to be the next “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” that it nearly derails itself as a rom-com with a refreshing ethnic spin. Fortunately the train never jumps the tracks, ...

That old staple, the culture-clash romantic comedy, is back once more in “David & Layla.” And like everything from the creaky “Abie’s Irish Rose” (first filmed in 1928) to “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” ...

Written, produced and directed by Iraqi Kurdish exile Jay Jonroy and based on a true story, "David and Layla" is an earnest, frequently funny comedy about stateless persons and the looming cliches ...

David is a Brooklyn Jew who hosts a cable-access show about sexuality, Layla is a striking Kurdish exile who faces deportation back to Iraq, and their impulsive decision to marry causes a good deal of ...

Inspired by a true story, sparks fly when a Jew and a Muslim fall in love in New York. David (David Moscow), TV host of "Sex & Happiness", becomes smitten with the voluptuous Layla (Shiva Rose) - a ...

Believe it or not, writer-director Jay Jonroy’s David and Layla is not the first Jew-meets-Muslim version of Romeo and Juliet to come along. Last year’s short subject Oscar went to the insipid but ...

At the heart of this tale is a real-life Jewish-Muslim love story that director Jay Jonroy heard from an acquaintance, and though he's clearly inspired by it, he doesn't know how to distill his themes ...