
Yuval Adler
Directing
Biography
Yuval Adler is an Israeli filmmaker. Adler is perhaps best known for directing Bethlehem (2013), a film for which he won the Ophir Award for best director and best screenplay. Several scenes in Bethlehem were filmed in the West Bank. It was described in Haaretz as 'one of the most powerful Israeli films ever made.' Adler studied mathematics and physics at Tel Aviv University and received a PhD in philosophy from Columbia University in New York City.
Known For

After being forced to drive a mysterious passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems.
Sympathy for the Devil

A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.
The Operative

In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.
The Secrets We Keep

Bethlehem tells the story of the unlikely bond between Razi, an Israeli secret service officer, and his Palestinian informant Sanfur, the younger brother of a senior Palestinian militant. Razi recruited Sanfur when he was just 15, and developed a very close, almost fatherly relationship to him. Now 17, Sanfur tries to navigate between Razi’s demands and his loyalty to his brother, living a double life and lying to both men.
Bethlehem
A couple attempts to mount a bold, immersive staging of the Book of Job, the story of a man named Job, whose faith in God is tested through extreme suffering. Moving between timelines, and juxtaposing the ancient wager between God and Satan with the modern-day unraveling of a marriage under pressure, their private lives bleed into their performance, and an on-set standoff raises an unexpected question: who gets to play God?
Job

A young locksmith is drawn to murder and slowly his fear of being caught transforms into the horror of not being caught.