{{short description|French-Israeli television writer and director}} {{Infobox person | name = Raphaël Nadjari | image = | caption = | native_name = רפאל נדג'ארי | birth_name = | native_name_lang = he | other_names = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1971}} | birth_place = Marseille, France | occupation = Film director, screenwriter | years_active = 1999–present | spouse = | children = | website = }}
'''Raphaël Nadjari''' ({{langx|he|רפאל נדג'ארי}}; born 1971) is a French-Israeli writer and director for film and television.
==Career== In 1993, Nadjari started working for French television as a writer and director. In 1997, he wrote the television screenplay ''Le P'tit Bleu'', which was directed by Francois Vautier for Arte as part of the TV drama collection ''Petits Gangsters''.
The same year he wrote and directed his first US feature, ''The Shade'' (released in 1999), which starred Richard Edson, Lorie Marino, and Jeff Ware. It was an adaptation of ''A Gentle Creature'' by Dostoevsky that Nadjari updated, setting it in contemporary New York City. This film was an official selection for ''Un Certain Regard'' at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/5388/year/1999.html|title=Festival de Cannes: ''The Shade''|accessdate=10 October 2009}}</ref> and also appeared at the Deauville Film Festival; the film was awarded in Bergamo Film Festival (Italy).
At the end of 1999, Nadjari directed his second feature, ''I Am Josh Polonski's Brother'' (2001). Starring Richard Edson and Jeff Ware, it was shot on Super 8 mm film in New York. The film opened in Paris on June 6, 2001, and was selected for the Forum for New Cinema at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2001. The same year, Nadjari shot the film ''Apartment #5c'' in New York; it was released in 2002. The film starred Richard Edson and Tinkerbell, an Israeli actress, and was selected in Cannes Directors' Fortnight.
In 2004, Nadjari filmed ''Avanim'' in Tel Aviv with Asi Levi who has been nominated for Best Actress in the European Film Award. The film received also the Best Film award in Cinéma Tous Ecrans and the Best Director award in the Cannes 2005 France Culture Award, Awards at the Seville Film Festival.
In 2006 ''Tehilim'' was set in Jerusalem and stars Michael Moushanov and Limor Goldstein, two prominent figures of Israeli television and theatre; it has been shown at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival in the Official Selection<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4409597/year/2007.html|title=Festival de Cannes: ''Tehilim''|accessdate=20 December 2009}}</ref> and won the Tokyo Filmex Best Film Award the same year.
In 2009, his documentary ''A History of Israeli Cinema'', a two-episode film of 104 minutes each, telling the story of Israeli Cinema since 1933 until today, was screened at the Berlin film festival forum.<ref>http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/forum/program/special-screenings/a-history-of-israeli-cinema.html {{Dead link|date=April 2010}}</ref>
In 2013, ''A Strange Course of Events'', a film set in Haifa was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.<ref name="Variety">{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2013/film/reviews/cannes-film-review-a-strange-course-of-events-1200486751/ |title=Cannes Film Review: ‘A Strange Course of Events’ |date=24 May 2013|accessdate=24 May 2013|work=Variety}}</ref><ref name="HWR">{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/a-strange-course-events-cannes-545614 |title=A Strange Course of Events: Cannes Review |date=24 May 2013|accessdate=24 May 2013|work=Hollywood Reporter}}</ref>
Nadjari's 2016 film ''Night Song'' (''Mobile étoile'') won the Tobias Spencer Award (in the Between Jewish and Israeli Identity competition) at the Haifa International Film Festival.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.haifaff.co.il/eng/News_%7Cfamp%7C_Updates/2127/The_award_winners-_Haifa_International_Film_Festival_2016 |title=The award winners- Haifa International Film Festival 2016 |publisher=Haifa International Film Festival |accessdate=7 November 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108134409/http://www.haifaff.co.il/eng/News_%7Cfamp%7C_Updates/2127/The_award_winners-_Haifa_International_Film_Festival_2016 |archivedate=8 November 2016 }}</ref>
==References== {{reflist|25em}}
==External links== *{{IMDb name|0618930}}
{{Raphaël Nadjari}}
{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Nadjari, Raphael}} Category:1971 births Category:Living people Category:20th-century French Jews Category:French emigrants to Israel Category:French film directors Category:Israeli film directors Category:Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Category:French screenwriters Category:Israeli male screenwriters Category:Mass media people from Marseille