Middle East Film Festival

Middle East Film Festival - Directors

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It's much easier to quickly recognise actors, and to make those connections. Not so simple to join the dots about the directors. At the time of beginning this list it's still kinda barebones, but I'll probably be adding a few names and faces as I go along. By the time you read those words, the list may be rather full, and I'll have been too lazy to rewrite these words 😜

I'm not setting a minimum number of films here. One amazing film will be enough to get on this list! It may be that not every film by the director is amazing, but once they're listed I'll list all the films that I've looked at. For lack of any better way to list them, and to eschew any suspicion of favouritism or bias, directors are listed alphabetically by surname. Someone once told me that I should maybe become a librarian. I was a bit insulted, as I think I can do better, but anyway I know how to put things in order, yes.

Hany Abu-Assad هاني أبو أسعد Paradise Now Omar Huda's Salon
Yuval Adler יובל אדלר Bethlehem
Alaa Eddine Aljem علاء الدين الجم The Unknown Saint
Tsivia Barkai Yacov ציביה ברקאי יעקב Red Cow
Nir Bergman ניר ברגמן Broken Wings
Emad Burnat عماد برناط 5 Broken Cameras
Joseph Cedar יוסף סידר Time of Favour Campfire Beaufort Footnote Norman
Scandar Copti إسكندر قبطي Ajami
Mohamed Diab محمد دياب Cairo 678 Clash Amira
Ziad Doueiri زياد دويري West Beirut The Attack The Insult
Ronit Elkabetz רונית אלקבץ‎ To Take a Wife Shiva (Seven Days) Gett – The Trial of Viviane Amsallem
Shlomi Elkabetz שלומי אלקבץ To Take a Wife Shiva (Seven Days) Gett – The Trial of Viviane Amsallem
Ameer Fakher Eldin أَمِيْر فَخْر ٱلدِّين The Stranger
Asghar Farhadi اصغر فرهادی About Elly A Separation The Salesman
Mahdi Fleifel مهدي فليفل A World Not Ours Xenos A Man Returned A Drowning Man 3 Logical Exits
Ari Folman ארי פולמן Waltz With Bashir
Eytan Fox איתן פוקס The Song of the Siren Yossi & Jagger Walk On Water The Bubble Yossi
Bahman Ghobadi بهمن قبادی A Time for Drunken Horses Marooned in Iraq Turtles Can Fly Half Moon No-one Knows About Persian Cats
Amos Gitai עמוס גיתאי Kadosh Kippur Kedma Promised Land Free Zone Disengagement
Jonathan Glazer The Zone of Interest
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige خليل جريججوانا خليل جريج Memory Box
Annemarie Jacir آن ماري جاسر Like Twenty Impossibles Salt of this Sea When I Saw You Wajib
Abbas Kiarostami عباس کیارستمی Where is the Friend's Home? Close-Up A Taste of Cherry The Wind Will Carry Us Ten
Roy Krispel רוי קריספל Abu Omar
Nadav Lapid נדב לפיד Policeman The Kindergarten Teacher Ahed's Knee
Majid Majidi مجید مجیدی Children of Heaven The Colour of Paradise Baran The Song of Sparrows
Mohsen Makhmalbaf محسن مخملباف Kandahar
Samira Makhmalbaf سمیرا مخملباف Blackboards At Five in the Afternoon
Haifaa al-Mansour هيفاء المنصور Wadjda
Samuel Maoz שמואל מעוז Lebanon Foxtrot
Mai Masri مي المصري Children of Shatila Frontiers of Dreams and Fears 3000 Nights
Najwa Najjar نجوى نجار Pomegranates and Myrrh Eyes of a Thief
Ameen Nayfeh أمين نايفه The Crossing 200 Metres
László Nemes Son of Saul
Eran Riklis ערן ריקליס Cup Final The Syrian Bride Lemon Tree A Borrowed Identity
Mahmoud Sabbagh مَحْمُود صباغ Barakah Meets Barakah
Darin J. Sallam دارين سلام Farha
Elia Suleiman إيليا سليمان Divine Intervention The Time That Remains
Yaron Zilberman ירון זילברמן Incitement
Sameh Zoabi سامح زعبي Tel Aviv on Fire