Shlomi Elkabetz

Shlomi ELKABETZ (1972, Israel) is a Moroccan actor, screenwriter and filmmaker based between Israel and France. At 21, he moved to New York to attend drama lessons. In 2004, he co-wrote and co-directed To Take a Wife with his sister, actress Ronit Elkabetz, which was awarded the Critics’ Prize and Audience Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2004. They continued working together and made The Seven Days (2008) and Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2014). Elkabetz made his acting debut in the TV mini-series Our Boys (2019). His sister starred in all his films, and Cahiers noirs (2021) was her last film before she passed away.

Filmography

Ve’lakhta lehe isha/To Take a Wife (2004, co-dir), Shiva/The Seven Days (2008, co-dir), Edut/Testimony (2011), Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2014, co-dir), Cahiers noirs/Black Notebooks (2021, doc)

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