Filmmaker and video artist Avi Mograbi was born in 1956 in Tel Aviv, where he lives and works. He grew up in a family of European and Arab Jewish emigrants – his grandfather, who came from Damascus, founded one of the first cinemas in Tel Aviv – in a Zionist environment from which he emancipated …
Jean-Claude Rousseau, born in Paris, lived in New York in the 1970s. There he discovered avant-garde cinema at the same time as the films of Ozu. In 1980 he finished writing a screenplay, Le Concert champêtre, and directed his first films. After Les Antiquités de Rome, La Vallée close is his second feature film. Selected …
Rachel Szor is an Israeli cinematographer, editor and director. She lives in Jerusalem.