Director Profile
Duki Dror
Position: Director
Country: Israel
Born in Tel Aviv and educated at UCLA and Columbia College in Chicago, Duki Dror is a critically-acclaimed documentary director. His first film "Sentenced to Learn," about "lifers" getting schooled in a Chicago penitentiary, was showcased in 1993 by Cinema Du Reel in a historical retrospective of American Documentary.
Since then, Dror has made 15 films that deal, in various ways, with issues of identity - cultural, political and ethnic expressions of individuals in a post-modern world. Among his films: “Raging Dove” (2002) – the story of world boxing champion Johar Abu Lashin - won the best film award in Docaviv film festival and at the San Francisco and the Valley film festivals. His most recent films are: “Paradise Lost” (co-writer and producer) – about the struggle of a young Arab women in Israel and “Mr. Cortisone Happy Days” (premieres in Cinema Du Reel in 2004) – a feature documentary about one man and a video camera trying to defeat death.
Dror’s films are internationally distributed and were broadcast in Europe, Asia, Australia and North America.
"Duki Dror disassembles the notion of migration and presents characters that are detached from the mainstream, enclosed in cultural islands." (Ynet).
Duki will be in attendance in San Francisco, Berkeley and Palo Alto screenings.
Films in the Festival
Mr. Cortisone, Happy Days
In this intimate tour de force, the director battles cancer and charms one and all looking for salvation and finding it by creating a cinematic masterpiece.
Sidewalk
When does it all begin? How do we become who we become? How did any of us survive the trials and tribulations of childhood?