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- Saleh Bakri was born on 1 March 1977 in Jaffa, Israel. He is an actor, known for The Band's Visit (2007), The Present (2020) and Wajib (2017).
- Producer
- Writer
- Director
Oren Moverman was born on 4 July 1966 in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel. He is a producer and writer, known for The Messenger (2009), Love & Mercy (2014) and Bad Education (2019).- Adam Bakri is a Palestinian actor who hails from a family of artists. He studied English Literature and Theater Arts and graduated from New York's Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. His first feature film was 2013 Oscar nominee Omar, by Hany Abu-Assad, for which he was awarded Best Actor at Malmo Arab Film Festival and was nominated for Best Performance by an Actor at Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Also, he was nominated for Best Actor at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival for his role in the film Slam. Adam co-starred with Keira Knightley in the film Official Secrets, for which he was nominated for Best Screen Couple (shared with Keira Knightley) at Women Film Critics Circle Awards. Bakri's most recent work is the sci-fi series Hell's Gate, which is now screening on Shahid platform, marking his first role in a series.
- Actor
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Additional Crew
Shmuel Levy was born on 4 December 1962 in Jaffa, Israel. He is an actor, known for Schindler's List (1993), The Quarry (1990) and Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985).- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Copti is an Oscar-nominated Palestinian filmmaker born and raised in Yafa. In 2009, his first full-length feature film "Ajami" won the Camera d'Or Special Mention at the Cannes Film Festival. His film was also nominated for the 82nd Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Film category and won more than 15 awards worldwide. Formerly a mechanical engineer, he has also written, directed and edited several fiction, documentary and experimental short films. Copti was on the jury of the Tribeca film festival as well as at the Thessaloniki film festival in 2010 and President of the Human Rights Award in the Istanbul International film festival 2011. Copti was part of the team that launched the Doha Tribeca Film Festival and the Doha Film Institute (DFI) and he headed the DFI's education department until November 2011. Currently Copti is developing his next feature film project.- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Aharon Keshales was born on 16 April 1976 in Jaffa, Israel. He is a writer and director, known for Big Bad Wolves (2013), South of Heaven (2021) and Rabies (2010).- Director
- Cinematographer
- Editor
Academy Award Nominated and Emmy Award Winner Israeli filmmaker Guy Davidi has been directing, shooting, and editing since the age of sixteen. His documentaries have been dealing with Human-Rights issues especially around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Some of them have been touching very sensitive and controversial issues that have been making a big impact on both local and international debate around these issues such as militarization of Israeli society and Israeli occupation of Palestine. His films were shown in TV channels and festivals worldwide. Some also reached a theatrical distribution worldwide. His short films include titles such as "In Working Progress" (2006), "Women Defying Barriers" (2009) and "High Hopes" (2014), which features music by Pink Floyd. In 2010 he released his first feature documentary "Interrupted Streams" (2010). His second feature "5 Broken Cameras" (2012) was directed with Palestinian, self-taught camera-man Emad Burnat. The film had an exemplary international success. It was nominated to the Oscar 2013 in the Best Documentary section and has won the 2013 International Emmy Award for Best Documentary. Davidi won the prize for Best Director at the Sundance Film Festival as well as the Audience and Jury awards at IDFA in Amsterdam and the Best Documentary in Cinema Eye Honours. In addition, it won awards in more than 50 film festivals worldwide, it was sold to numerous TV stations and commercially distributed in theaters across Europe, Asia and North America. His third feature length "Mixed Feelings" (2016) won the Best Documentary Award in Epos film Festival in Tel Aviv. After moving to Copenhagen, in 2022 Davidi released his fourth feature documentary "Innocence" in the 79th Venice Biennale as the only documentary within the Horizon Competition. The film was then selected to festivals worldwide such as Asia's biggest festival of Busan, International Film Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA) and Chicago International film festival.- Carol Shaya was born on 4 February 1969 in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel. She is an actress, known for Silent Predator (1997), New York Undercover (1994) and The Word (1990). She was previously married to Charles Anthony Castro.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Shredi Jabarin was born on 2 December 1981 in Jaffa, Israel. He is an actor and director, known for I am that (2014), Disconnections (2015) and Sof Shavua B'Tel Aviv (2008).- Anat Waxman was born on 26 June 1961 in Jaffa, Israel. She is an actress, known for Tel Aviv Stories (1992), Nina's Tragedies (2003) and Noodle (2007).
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Dave Kashner was born on 4 March 1896 in Jaffa, Palestine. He was an actor, known for The Sundowners (1950), Bonanza (1959) and The Little Witch (1945). He died on 4 February 1985 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Director
- Actor
- Producer
Leon Thau was born on 8 April 1926 in Jaffa, Israel. He was a director and actor, known for Potty Time (1973), Save the Lady (1981) and Carry on Up the Khyber (1968). He died on 16 May 2010 in Sturminster Newton, Dorset, England, UK.- Writer
- Director
- Cinematographer
Yoav Shamir was born in November 1970 in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel. He is a writer and director, known for Checkpoint (2003), Defamation (2009) and The Prophet and the Space Aliens (2020).- Hilal Kaboub was born in 1975 in Jaffa, Israel. He is an actor, known for Tyrant (2014), Fauda (2015) and Homeland (2011).
- Yafit Asulin was born on 8 May 1980 in Jaffa, Israel. She is an actress, known for Nivheret Yisrael (2011), Zaguri (2014) and Mr Predictable (2016).
- Ahmed Jibril was born in April 1937 in Jaffa, British Palestine (now Jaffa, Israel). He died on 7 July 2021 in Damascus, Syria.
- Actress
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Karolina was born on 19 March 1971 in Jaffa, Israel. She is an actress, known for It's Not in My Head (2022), The 5 Houses of Lea Goldberg (2011) and Ladies First (2014).- Actress
- Soundtrack
Zaharira Harifai was born in December 1929 in Jaffa, Palestine [now Tel Aviv, Israel]. She was an actress, known for Jellyfish (2007), 5 and 5 (1980) and Sallah Shabati (1964). She was married to Shlomo Shva. She died on 2 January 2013 in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Director
- Writer
- Editor
Keren Cytter was born on 22 August 1977 in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel. Keren is a director and writer, known for Vengeance: Episode 2 - The Woman Is Alone (2012), Vengeance: Episode 3 - Closing Time (2012) and Vengeance: Episode 1 - The Perfect Man (2012).- David Frenkel was born on 17 September 1915 in Jaffa, Palestine. He was a director, known for Mafish Fayda (1936). He died on 31 December 1994 in Montgeron, Essonne, France.
- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
- Additional Crew
Nava Semel was born on 15 September 1954 in Jaffa, Israel. She was a writer, known for And the Rat Laughed, Lost Relatives (2013) and The Last Winter (1983). She was married to Noam Semel. She died on 2 December 2017 in Israel.- Music Department
- Composer
- Actress
Rona Kenan was born on 26 July 1979 in Jaffa, Israel. She is a composer and actress, known for The Way Home (2009), The Cemetery Club (2006) and I Shot My Love (2009).- Director
- Producer
E.H. Kleinert was born on 17 July 1891 in Jaffa, Israel. He was a director and producer, known for I'm from Arkansas (1944), Cliff Friend (1932) and All at Sea (1933). He died on 6 September 1962 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Aref Hajjaj was born in 1943 in Jaffa, Israel.
- Danièle Messia was born on 27 October 1956 in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel. She died on 13 June 1985 in France.