Director · Screenwriter · Producer
Netalie Braun
Cinema at the intersection of intimacy, politics, and resistance.
Biography
Netalie Braun is an award-winning director, screenwriter, and producer working across fiction and documentary cinema.
Her recent narrative feature OXYGEN (2025) won Best Film at the Jerusalem Film Festival. Her documentary SHOOTING (2025) premiered internationally at the Telluride Film Festival and received the Jury Award at DocAviv.
Her earlier works include the Ophir Award-winning documentary HOPE I'M IN THE FRAME (2017); THE HANGMAN, which won Best Film at the Haifa Film Festival and was an official selection at IDFA; and VOW (2014), which won Best Film at the Jerusalem Film Festival and was also awarded in Seoul and Tel Aviv.
Braun's early films METAMORPHOSIS (2006) and GEVALD (2008, Berlinale Panorama) established her as one of the most fearless voices in contemporary Israeli cinema.
Across her work, Braun is known for a bold cinematic language and a sustained engagement with urgent social and political realities. Her films have screened at leading international festivals and received wide critical recognition.
She currently serves as Head of the MFA Program at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University.
Filmography
Selected Works
Oxygen
Narrative Feature · 2025
On the eve of a new war, a mother must decide whether saving her son means defying him — and the country that raised him to fight.
Shooting
Documentary Feature · 2025
A bold, visually arresting trilogy that exposes how cinema is weaponized in Israeli society.
Hope I'm In The Frame
Documentary Feature · 2017
An aging film director struggles to make a new film — the story of Michal Bat-Adam, the first female film director in Israel.
The Hangman
Documentary Feature · 2010
A human portrait of Shalom Nagar, the man who executed Adolf Eichmann.
Vow
Short Fiction · 2015
A lonely young girl, trapped between silence and violation, makes a radical vow to reclaim power and protect her mother.
Gevald
Short Musical · 2008
A queer musical set in Jerusalem's only queer bar on the eve of a threatened Pride parade — desire, faith, fear, and resistance collide overnight.
Metamorphosis
Documentary · 2006
A hybrid documentary that interweaves four testimonies of rape and incest with rape myths from Ovid's Metamorphoses, confronting sexual violence as a cultural structure of power.
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