From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Raphael Nadjari
Raphael Nadjari
Raphaël Nadjari (born 1971 in Marseille, France) is a at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival in the Official Selec-
French born writer and director for film and television. tion[2] and won the Tokyo Filmex Best Film Award the
In 1993, Nadjari started working for French television same year.
as a writer and director. In 1997, he wrote the television In 2009, his documentary A History of Israeli Cinema, a
screenplay Le P’tit Bleu, which was directed by Francois two-episode film of 104 minutes each, telling the story of
Vautier for Arte as part of the TV drama collection Petits Israeli Cinema since 1933 until today, was screened at the
Gangsters. Berlin film festival forum.[3]
The same year he wrote and directed his first US fea-
ture, The Shade (released in 1999), which starred Richard
Edson, Lorie Marino, and Jeff Ware). It was an adaptation
References
of A Gentle Creature by Dostoevsky that Nadjari updated, [1] "Festival de Cannes: The Shade".
setting it in contemporary New York City. This film was http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/
an official selection for Un Certain Regard at the 1999 ficheFilm/id/5388/year/1999.html. Retrieved 10
Cannes Film Festival[1] and also appeared at the Deauville October 2009.
Film Festival; the film was awarded in Bergamo Film Fes- [2] "Festival de Cannes: Tehilim". http://www.festival-
tival (Italy). cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4409597/
At the end of 1999, Nadjari directed his second fea- year/2007.html. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
ture, I Am Josh Polonski’s Brother (2001). Starring Richard [3] http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/forum/
Edson and Jeff Ware, it was shot on Super 8 mm film in program/special-screenings/a-history-of-israeli-
New York. The film opened in Paris on June 6, 2001, and cinema.html
was selected for the Forum for New Cinema at the Ber-
lin International Film Festival in 2001. The same year,
Nadjari shot the film Apartment #5c in New York; it was
External links
released in 2002. The film starred Richard Edson and • Raphael Nadjari at the Internet Movie Database
Tinkerbell, an Israeli actress, and was selected in Cannes’ Persondata
Director’s Forthnight. Name Nadjari, Raphael
In 2004, Nadjari filmed Avanim in Tel Aviv with Asi
Alternative names
Levi who has been nominated for Best Actress in the
European Film Award. The film received also the Best Short description
Film award in Cinéma Tous Ecrans and the Best Director Date of birth 1971
award in the Cannes 2005 France Culture Award. Place of birth
His latest fiction, Tehilim is set in Jerusalem and stars
Michael Moushanov and Limor Goldstein, two prominent Date of death
figures of Israeli television and theatre; it has been shown Place of death
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