Director Profile
Eytan Fox
Position: Director
Country: Israel
Pictured, right, with producer Gal Uchavsky.
Eytan Fox's 2004 Walk on Water has become the most successful Israeli film abroad. The story of a Mossad secret service agent who befriends the gay grandson of an ex-Nazi officer was released successfully in over 25 countries. Previously his 2002 feature Yossi & Jagger, the love affair between two officers in the Israeli army, became an international breakout hit.
Born in New York City, at an early age Fox moved with his family to Israel. He grew up in Jerusalem, then studied at Tel Aviv University School of Film and Television. His first film, Time Off, a 45-minute drama about sexual identity in the Israeli army, won him acclaim and led to the making of his first feature, Song of the Siren, a romantic comedy which became Israel's biggest box office success in 1994.
Between 1997 and 2000, Fox created and directed the Israeli TV dramatic series Florentine, which examines the life of young people in Tel Aviv before and after the Rabin assassination.
Films in the Festival
Bubble, The
Eytan Fox (Walk on Water, Yossi and Jagger) continues his extraordinary run of sleek, chic films that define the contradictions of modern Israeli life. A trio of charming gay and straight twenty-somethings share a flat in a hip Tel Aviv district. But the carefree "bubble" they live in threatens to burst when one of them falls in love with a young Palestinian man.