Hadar Morag

Graduated with honors from the Tel Aviv University’s Film Department, Morag directed “The Silence” (Cannes, Cinéfondation 2008), “Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me” (Orizzonti, Venice 2015), “It’s Time You Died Already” (nominated for the Israeli Oscars 2022 and won Best Short Film Award in Haifa IFF 2021, Cinema South FF 2021 and TISFF 2022). “Tzipora and Rachel Are Not Dead”, which won the TLV Rough Cut DOC Lab DocAviv 2021, will be premiering at DocAviv’s official competition this year, 2023. “Talitha Kumi”, is her 2nd feature film and is now in pre-production (developed at the Jerusalem International Film Lab, which won the Berlin three month 24/7 residency 2018 by the Medienboard and the FFA, Berlinale Script Station 2019. participated in the Greenhouse Development Program). Morag works as a script consultant at the Israeli film funds. She is a social activist and lives in Jaffa, works and volunteers with Palestinian families in need and with women in the prostitution cycle.