Michal Bat-Adam is a director, screenwriter, and actress. Bat-Adam started out as a theatre and film actress. She would appear regularly both in her own films and those made by her husband, the late director, Moshé Mizrahi who passed away in 2018. Highlights of her film acting credits include I Love you Rosa (1972), Daughters, Daughters (1973), The House on Chelouche Street (1973), Rachel’s Man (1976), Moments de law vie d’une femme (1979), and The Lover (1986). In 1979, Bat-Adam had her directorial debut with Moments de law vie d’une femme, that was later featured in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival. The film was shown at a host of additional, international film festivals including the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), and the San Sebastián International Film Festival.
In the 1980s, Bat-Adam became Israeli film’s most prolific, representative female voice. Highlights of her film directing credits include A Thin Line (1980) which won three Kinor David (‘David’s violin’) Awards, including Best Film and Best Director; Boy Meets Girl (1982); The Lover (1986); A Thousand and One Wives (1989); Aya: Imagined Autobiography (1994); Life is Life (2002), and Rita, Working Title (2007). In 2017, Netalie Braun directed Hope I’m in the Frame, a documentary film portrait of Michal Bat-Adam. In 2019, the Israeli Film Academy named Michal Bat-Adam its laureate of that year’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
