Leila is a film director, composer, singer, actress, scriptwriter, camerawoman, and performer born in Auvergne in France from a French mother and an Iraqi father. She studied violin alto and opera at the conservatory of Bordeaux, 3 years of architecture and has a DEUG cinema from Paris 8. She moved to Belgium to study at the film school IAD. She stopped her studies and became autodidact. She's working between Belgium, France, Germany and Egypt.
She plays in her own films and composes the music of them. Her first short film Vu (2009), 25', received a Special Mention of the Jury at the Berlinale 2009 and went at around 15 international film festivals.