Jalal Masarwa

BIOGRAPHIE

Jalal Masarwa is an actor and director. He began studying cinema at the age of 16, at a local theatre in Kfar Saba for two years. During that time he started getting into the Israeli cinema industry, when he appeared in a few small roles. Soon after graduating from high school, he traveled to the US, to study theatre arts in Stella Adler School in Los Angeles. At the age of 20 he returned to Israel, and got back in the movie and television industry. Two years later, at the age of 22, he decided to study filmmaking as well, and ended up signing up to cinema studies at Camera Obscura, located in Tel Aviv. At the age of 29, he filmed “The Woman from Bar Blue” which is considered to be his directional debut.

FILMOGRAPHIE