{{short description|Israeli film maker}} '''Iris Zaki''' ({{Langx|he|איריס זכי}}) is an Israeli film maker. She is best known for her film ''Unsettling'' which is a documentary about Zaki (a left wing Israeli) living in the Israeli settlement of Tekoa for two months.<ref>{{Cite news| title = At Alternative Israeli Film Festival in N.Y., Film About Settlers Proves Unsettling Experience for Viewers| work = Haaretz| access-date = 2018-11-30| date = 2018-11-11| url = https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2018-11-11/ty-article/.premium/at-alternative-israeli-film-festival-in-ny-film-about-settlers-proves-unsettling/0000017f-e0fe-df7c-a5ff-e2fe850f0000}}</ref> An earlier film by Zaki, ''Women in Sink'', received 13 awards and has been screened at over 120 festivals and universities. Zaki teaches ethnographic and documentary filmmaking.<ref name=ath>{{Cite web| title = Iris Zaki| work = Ethnofest| accessdate = 2018-11-30| url = https://www.ethnofest.gr/directors/iris-zaki/}}</ref>
Zaki completed her PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London.<ref name=ath /> She wrote her doctoral dissertation on whether it was possible to film a conversation without creating the feel of an interview. She calls the technique "The Abandoned Camera".<ref name=ath /><ref name=toi>{{Cite web| last = Magid| first = Jacob| title = In new film, Tel Aviv leftist picks up and moves to a West Bank settlement| accessdate = 2018-11-30| url = https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-new-film-tel-aviv-leftist-picks-up-and-moves-to-a-west-bank-settlement/}}</ref> While filming ''Unsettling'' Zaki says, "It took a long time for people to calm down and feel comfortable with my presence".<ref name= toi/>
Zaki's is the granddaughter to Jewish Egyptian singer Souad Zaki and Muslim Egyptian qanun player Mohammed Elakkad. Her father Moshe Zaki is a psychologist in Haifa and her brother Uri Zaki is a political activist and former representative of B'Tselem in Washington.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Ghert-Zand |first=Renee |date=29 April 2014 |title=Forgotten Siren: From Cairo diva to single mother |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-great-diva-from-cairo-who-became-a-tel-aviv-cleaning-lady/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140430094344/http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-great-diva-from-cairo-who-became-a-tel-aviv-cleaning-lady/ |archive-date=30 April 2014 |access-date=4 Dec 2023 |website=The Times of Israel}}</ref>
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