Yehonatan Indursky

Career

Filmography

• "Driver" - graduation movie in Sam Spiegel Film School. Won the best the Best Film and Best Acting Awards of the SSFS in 2011 and been selected to the Jerusalem Film Festival;
• "Ponevezh Time" - Indursky's first full-length film: documentary, a rare and intimate look at the world’s leading yeshiva, premiered in official competition in the Haifa Film Festival 2012 and was nominated for Best Documentary Film at the Israeli Academy Awards ;
• "The Cantor and the Sea" ;
• "Shtisel" - as a screenwriter he created and wrote the highly acclaimed Israeli drama series, Shtisel. In 2018 the series was broadcast on Netflix International.
• "Autonomies" - A dystopian mini tv drama series about an alternate reality of present day Israel, a nation torn and divided by a wall between the secular capital of Tel Aviv, and the Haredi Autonomy in Jerusalem. won Reflet d'Or, The Best International Television Series in Geneva International Film Festival 2018.
• "Driver" - an intimate exploration of lives at the fringes of Bnei Brak’s ultra-Orthodox community. The film won 3 prizes - Best Picture, Best actor and Best Screenplay from The Israeli Film Critics Forum 2018.

  Awards

• 2011: The Best Film from Sam Spiegel Film and Television School for the "Driver";
• 2013: The Best Debut Film Award from the Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Forum for "Ponevezh Time";
• 2014: Warsaw Phoenix for the best documentary film, 10th International Film Festival Jewish Motifs for "Ponevezh Time".
• 2015: The best director prize in Jerusalem Film Festival for "The cantor and the sea".
• 2017: Israeli Television Academy Award for "Shtisel"
• 2018: Reflet d'Or, The Best International Television Series in Geneva International Film Festival for "Autonomies".
• 2018: Best film, Best actor and Best Screenplay for "Driver" from The Israeli Film Critics Forum.