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Yotam Knispel is a screenwriter, director and lecturer,

born in Denmark and raised in Israel.

Nominated twice for an Israeli Academy Award for LOVE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT (2023), which screened in over 50 international film festivals and won 18 awards, and 
GIRL WITH A FORK IN A WORLD OF SOUP (2019), which won BEST SHORT FILM at Jerusalem Film Festival and screened in more than 30 international film festivals.
 

In 2025, he debuted his first feature film as a screenwriter in the documentary-animated film KAFKA'S LAST TRIAL, which won BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM at Haifa Film Festival.

 

During 2024, he won two writing grants for his upcoming feature films EXPORT and DON'T FORGET FLORA, both currently in development.

In 2023, he directed INVISIBLE ALBUM, a five-episode musical web series.
 

His first international co-production, BAMBINA (2016) was filmed at the prestigious TERRE DI CINEMA workshop in Sicily and won various awards at over 40 film festivals. His short film DROP (2015) was screened in over 50 film festivals and won 10 awards.

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Honored by screenwriting grants and filmmaking  residencies in Europe and the USA.

Currently working on his first feature film.
 

If you got this far, thanks! Pfff. Here's me taking a BIG GULP and trying to explain my work: I'm drawn to telling surrealistic stories that take place in realistic worlds.

I enjoy creating hypnotic atmospheres and building intimacy between the audience and the characters. 

My main passion is telling stories through the lens of someone's inner world and view of life. 

Oh, and I tend to explore the boundaries of love, gender identity, loneliness, longing and belonging,

and the never ending desire for freedom.

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Music was and will always be a big part of my work, so I also directed music videos for prominent Israeli musicians and bands: Acollective, The White Screen,

Omer Moskovich and Tomer Yeshayahu, and more.
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