
Matan Tal
Directing
Biography
Matan Tal is an Israeli-born filmmaker and screenwriter. He started his way as a writer, when he published his first book at age 11 (in Be'er Publishing House).
Known For

Ina is a therapist, the mother of a rebellious teenage girl, and a partner to a man who has always put his own career first. She puts everyone’s needs ahead of her own until one hot summer day, when her self-centered mother celebrates her 70th birthday, something happens that will change everything.
Everybody Wants To Be Loved

An actress loses her identity in a character, what then turns her life into tragedy.
Medea

A desktop documentary about the online afterlife of the late French filmmaker, Chris Marker.
The Invention of Chris Marker

A journey through a place of an eternal past; where the grandson of a Jewish partisan sets out to experience the dramatic events and places that shaped his grandfather's war years
The Same Snowy Ground

A Desktop Film exploring the story of David Lynch's online persona and digital essence.
David Lynch: The Virtual Life

Until the age of nine, Matan never knew his older sister had a rare syndrome. When she chooses to undergo plastic surgery to change her syndrome-induced appearance, it sets him on a 15-year journey to reexamine their childhood and the bond they shared.
My Sister Shira

Hotel rooms are rarely the destination for pilgrimage. In one hotel room, an iconic picture was taken - the portrait of Theodor Herzl, the most renowned zionist leader. Filmmaker Matan Tal visits the room and explores how the connection between Herzl and the room, echos Herzl’s own ideology. Which raises the question: Can people and places be connected forever?
The Herzl Room - An Essay Film

A playful and poetic film essay journey that revives Peter Altenberg, the eccentric Viennese modernist who turned café life into an art form.