"At eight o'clock, it's Laila's birthday, okay?" Palestinian judge turned cab driver Abu Laila's wife reminds her husband. But on his young daughter's birthday, like any day, Abu faces a nerve-wracking shift in a Ramallah yellow cab armed only with an ex-jurist's misplaced pride, a father's loyalty, and a sticker reminding passengers that smoking and carrying AK-47s are prohibited. Rather than address politics or document holy war heroics and villainy, Laila's Birthday focuses on the toll that the unending Palestinian-Israeli conflict extracts from civilians clinging to both employment and a semblance of normal life amidst chaos and corruption, missile attacks and bursts of gunfire.
| Directing | Rashid Masharawi | Director |
| Writing | Rashid Masharawi | Screenplay |
| Production | Mohamed Habib Attia | Producer |
| Production | Peter van Vogelpoel | Producer |
| Production | Rashid Masharawi | Producer |
| Production | Michael J. Werner | Co-Producer |
| Production | Wouter Barendrecht | Co-Producer |
| Production | Denis Wigman | Associate Producer |
| Production | Othmar Sweers | Associate Producer |
| Production | Nour Eddine Sail | Associate Producer |
| Production | Dimitri de Clercq | Associate Producer |
| Camera | Tarek Ben Abdallah | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Néstor Sanz | Director of Photography |
| Production | Areen Omari | Line Producer |
| Camera | Hanna Abu Saada | Assistant Camera |
| Editing | Pascale Chavance | Editor |
| Sound | Kaies Sellami | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Issa J. Qumsyah | Sound Engineer |
| Directing | Georgina Asfour | Script Supervisor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Mayssoun Sharqawi | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| Production | May Ao'de | Production Manager |
| Costume & Make-Up | Manal Hilani | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Moussa Ajamya | Hairdresser |
| Production | Mourad Ismaël | Location Manager |
| Production | Areen Omari | Casting |
| Directing | Hanna Atallah | First Assistant Director |
| Production | Hala Abu Sway | Production Coordinator |
| Crew | Bashir Abu Rabi'a | Special Effects |
| Sound | Wim Post | Sound Supervisor |
| Crew | Wim Post | Mixing Engineer |
| Sound | Sander Houtman | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Danny van Spreuwel | Dialogue Editor |
| Sound | Sami Bel Arbi | Sound Recordist |
| Art | Joris Vos | Title Designer |
| Crew | Mark Dols | Post Production Supervisor |
| Crew | Marieke Brouwer | Post-Production Manager |
