Tamar Baruch

Magic Tam Productions

BIOGRAPHIE

Tamar Baruch (born 1987) was born in Israel to a Tunisian mother and an Iranian father, making her a first-generation immigrant of Jewish Arab descent. She earned her bachelor's degree from the Film department at Tel Aviv University and York University in Toronto, as well as a master's degree in Documentary film at NYU as a Fulbright fellow. In 2018, Tamar was awarded the Israeli Ministry of Culture's Early Career Film Award. The judges praised her as "a director with a unique vision and a fascinating creator who will lead Israeli feminist cinema." Tamar's short films, including "Gloria" (2013), "Power of Attorney" (2014), and "Stranger of the Dunes" (2017), have been screened at film festivals worldwide and received First Prize at the Jerusalem Film Festival and the Amazon Most Promising Director Prize at the Montreal World Film Festival, among others. She has also been nominated for an Israeli Academy Award (Ophir) and has earned two MacDowell Fellowships and a Yaddo fellowship. "Her Name Was Zehava" (2023) had its world premiere at the Haifa International Film Festival on October 1, 2023, where it won Best Short Documentary. If it is selected for the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, it will be its international premiere. The film was created in collaboration with Zehava, who wished to share her story in her own words, and with mentorship from Dr. Amalya Ziv, a non-binary trans pioneer in gender and sexuality — and one of the first Israeli researchers in the field. Dr. Ziv formerly served as the head of the Gender Department at Ben Gurion University.

FILMOGRAPHIE