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Alamork Davidian

Alamork Davidian is an Israeli film director and screenwriter born in Ethiopia, known for her first feature film, Fig Tree.

born 1980Directing the film Fig TreeFilms on Ethiopian-Israeli womenThe short film Facing the Wall

Born: 30 June 1980, Awash
Occupation: film director, screenwriter
Education: Sam Spiegel Film and Television School

Alamork Davidian was born in 1980 in Awash

Davidian was born in Awash, a village near Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. She immigrated to Israel with her family at the age of 11. Her name means "golden world."

As a teenager she studied film at the Kfar Hayarok boarding school. She later graduated from the film and animation department at Tel-Hai College. In 2012 she finished film studies at the Sam Spiegel school, its first graduate of Ethiopian origin.

After her army service she worked as a researcher and translator on a film by director Ada Ushpiz about the Ethiopian community in Israel. Her films often deal with women who moved from Ethiopia to Israel. Her short films include Facing the Wall, which won the Van Leer Award at the 2016 Jerusalem Film Festival.

Her first feature, Fig Tree, was filmed in Addis Ababa in Amharic and released in 2018. It follows a Jewish girl during the Ethiopian Civil War. Davidian won the Audentia Award at the Toronto International Film Festival for it, and it was nominated for the Ophir Award for Best Picture.

Alamork Davidian's life in 6 milestones

1997
Her school documentary Piercing won at the Jerusalem festival for school films.
2007
Made the short film Molo as a student at Tel-Hai College.
2012
Finished film studies at the Sam Spiegel school.
2014
Won an international pitching award for the Fig Tree script in Jerusalem.
2016
Facing the Wall won the Van Leer Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
2018
Won the Audentia Award in Toronto for Fig Tree.