[1] His films include Cup Final (1991), The Syrian Bride (2004), Lemon Tree (2008) and Dancing Arabs (also known as A Borrowed Identity) (2014).

He served in the Israeli Defense Forces during the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and went to university in Tel Aviv.

In 2008, Lemon Tree won the Audience Award at the Berlin and San Sebastian International Film Festivals and was released globally to critical and commercial success.

[7] His film, Spider in the Web (2019), starred Ben Kingsley, Monica Bellucci, Itay Tiran and Itzik Cohen.

Riklis is preparing his new film Reading Lolita in Tehran, based on the bestseller by Azar Nafisi, that will be shot in late 2020.