Biography

Academy Award Nominated and Emmy Award Winner Israeli filmmaker Guy Davidi has been directing, shooting, and editing since the age of sixteen. His documentaries have been dealing with Human-Rights issues especially around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Some of them have been touching very sensitive and controversial issues that have been making a big impact on both local and international debate around these issues such as militarization of Israeli society and Israeli occupation of Palestine. His films were shown in TV channels and festivals worldwide. Some also reached a theatrical distribution worldwide. His short films include titles such as "In Working Progress" (2006), "Women Defying Barriers" (2009) and "High Hopes" (2014), which features music by Pink Floyd. In 2010 he released his first feature documentary "Interrupted Streams" (2010). His second feature "5 Broken Cameras" (2012) was directed with Palestinian, self-taught camera-man Emad Burnat. The film had an exemplary international success. It was nominated to the Oscar 2013 in the Best Documentary section and has won the 2013 International Emmy Award for Best Documentary. Davidi won the prize for Best Director at the Sundance Film Festival as well as the Audience and Jury awards at IDFA in Amsterdam and the Best Documentary in Cinema Eye Honours. In addition, it won awards in more than 50 film festivals worldwide, it was sold to numerous TV stations and commercially distributed in theaters across Europe, Asia and North America. His third feature length "Mixed Feelings" (2016) won the Best Documentary Award in Epos film Festival in Tel Aviv. After moving to Copenhagen, in 2022 Davidi released his fourth feature documentary "Innocence" in the 79th Venice Biennale as the only documentary within the Horizon Competition. The film was then selected to festivals worldwide such as Asia's biggest festival of Busan, International Film Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA) and Chicago International film festival.
- IMDb mini biography by: Guy Davidi