Or is a graduate of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film & TV School, a Berlinale Talents 2015 alumnus and winner of the 2nd prize at the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Int. Film Lab 2018. Currently working on her first feature film – Home, which was developed in Torino Script Lab 2020, and got the CNC – special mention. Home received the production funds from the Rabinovich Foundation in Israel and the Ukrainian State Film Agency. Or wrote and directed the short film Anna, which won the Cinéfondation Award at the Cannes FF 2016, the Israeli Film Academy Award for Best Short Film 2016, and an Honorable Mention at the Toronto IFF 2016, among other important awards and screenings around the world. She wrote and directed a few fiction shorts, and a 50-minute documentary – Violeta Mi Vida – which won prizes in festivals in Israel and Russia. Or worked as an editor for different TV series and documentaries, such as “Unchained” (Metir Agunot) by Yossi Madmoni, David Ofek, and Tamar Kay 2019. And Mr. Gaga by Tomer Heymann (2015). Her films tell stories about women from the outskirts of society, struggling to liberate themselves from social conventions, and to be free.
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