Avi Mograbi

Avi Mograbi (Hebrew: אבי מוגרבי; born May 9, 1956) is an Israeli documentary filmmaker.

His mother fled to Palestine from Germany (at that time German Reich) in the 1930s; his father was born in Beirut, Lebanon to a Syrian Jewish family.

[1] Like all Israeli citizens over the age of 18, he was required to join the Israel Defence Forces for military service.

His film, Avenge But One of My Two Eyes, which was screened out of competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival,[8] investigates and critiques the paradoxes of Israeli society—which on one hand celebrates age old myths and tales of destruction and violence (for example The Siege of Masada and Samson) while condemning Palestinians for resorting to similar acts of violence.

In June 2014, Avi Mograbi was the first special guest invited by the Open City Docs Fest,[9] who organised a retrospective of his work and also a new edition and live performance of The Details,[10] initially presented at the University Rennes 2.