Eytan Fox

Eytan Fox is an Israeli filmmaker, born in New York and raised from early childhood in Jerusalem, whose work has been central to the emergence of queer Israeli cinema on the world stage. He is known for Yossi & Jagger (2002), a tender film about a clandestine affair between two Israeli soldiers that ends in tragedy, and its sequel Yossi (2012), as well as Walk on Water (2004) and The Bubble (2006). Fox has been openly gay throughout his career, and since 1988 has lived and worked in Tel Aviv with his partner, screenwriter and journalist Gal Uchovsky, who co-wrote Walk on Water and The Bubble and shares his interest in stories exploring Israeli identity, military culture, and gay life. Fox's films engage thoughtfully with the intersection of national trauma — from the Holocaust to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — and gay male desire, and Yossi & Jagger in particular became one of the most celebrated and influential queer films in Israeli cinema history, screened and honored internationally, including at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2006, Fox received the Washington Jewish Film Festival's inaugural Decade Award, recognizing a filmmaker whose work made a significant contribution to Jewish cinema.