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~Albert Einstein

Directors

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

Emad Burnat

عماد برناط

  • Five Broken Cameras

Joseph Cedar

יוסף סידר

  • Time of Favour
  • Campfire
  • Footnote
  • Norman

Scandar Copti

إسكندر قبطي

  • Ajami

Mohamed Diab

محمد دياب

  • Cairo 678
  • Clash
  • Amira

Ziad Doueiri

زياد دويري

Ronit Elkabetz

רונית אלקבץ

  • To Take a Wife
  • Shiv'a
  • Gett – The Trial of Viviane Amsalem

Shlomi Elkabetz

שלומי אלקבץ

  • To Take a Wife
  • Shiv'a
  • Gett – The Trial of Viviane Amsalem

Ameer Fakher Eldin

أمير فخر الدين

  • 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

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
  • A Flag Without a Country

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 وخليل جريج

Annemarie Jacir

آن ماري جاسر

  • Like Twenty Impossibles
  • Salt of this Sea
  • When I Saw You

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

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

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

Laszlo 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

  • Chronicle of a Disappearance
  • Divine Intervention
  • The Time That Remains
  • It Must Be Heaven

Susan Youssef

سوزان يوسف

Yaron Zilberman

ירון זילברמן

Sameh Zoabi

سامح زعبي

  • Tel Aviv on Fire