Raphaël Nadjari ( he, רפאל נדג'ארי; born 1971) is a French-Israeli writer and director for film and television. 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

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as part of the TV drama collection ''Petits Gangsters''. The same year he wrote and directed his first US feature, ''

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'' (released in 1999), which starred

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, Lorie Marino, and Jeff Ware. It was an adaptation of ''

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'' by

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that Nadjari updated, setting it in contemporary

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. This film was an official selection for ''

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'' at the

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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

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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' Director's Forthnight. In 2004, Nadjari filmed '' Avanim'' in

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with

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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 ''

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'' 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

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in the Official Selection 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. In 2013, ''

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'', a film set in

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was screened in the

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section at the

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. Nadjari's 2016 film '' Night Song'' (''Mobile étoile'') won the Tobias Spencer Award (in the Between Jewish and Israeli Identity competition) at the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nadjari, Raphael 1971 births Living people 20th-century French Jews French emigrants to Israel French film directors Israeli film directors Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres French screenwriters Israeli male screenwriters Mass media people from Marseille