Netalie Braun is an award-winning director, screenwriter, and producer working across fiction and documentary cinema.

Her recent narrative feature OXYGEN (2025) won Best Film at the Jerusalem Film Festival. Her documentary SHOOTING (2025) premiered internationally at the Telluride Film Festival and received the Jury Award at DocAviv.

Her earlier works include the Ophir Award-winning documentary HOPE I’M IN THE FRAME (2017); THE HANGMAN, which won Best Film at the Haifa Film Festival and was an official selection at IDFA; and VOW (2014), which won Best Film at the Jerusalem Film Festival and was also awarded in Seoul and Tel Aviv.

Braun’s early films METAMORPHOSIS (2006) and GEVALD (2008, Berlinale Panorama) established her as one of the most fearless voices in contemporary Israeli cinema.

Across her work, Braun is known for a bold cinematic language and a sustained engagement with urgent social and political realities. Her films have screened at leading international festivals and received wide critical recognition.

She currently serves as Head of the MFA Program at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University.