Anat Zuria

Anat Zuria was born in 1961 in Jerusalem

Anat Zuria was born in Jerusalem on October 16, 1961. Her mother, Naomi Shalev, owned a gallery, and her father, Avner Shalev, was a former army officer who became chairman of Yad Vashem.

She studied painting at the Midrasha art school in Ramat HaSharon and film at the Ma'aleh film school. During her IDF service she met Yossi Zuria. They married and have 5 children.

Between 2002 and 2010 she made a documentary trilogy on female sexuality in the religious world: Purity, Sentenced to Marriage and Black Bus. Sentenced to Marriage followed three women whose husbands refused them a divorce, and it was screened at a special session in the Knesset. Black Bus dealt with gender segregation among the ultra-Orthodox.

Her film The Lesson follows a Muslim woman learning to drive in Jerusalem. She later directed Conventional Sins and Reinvestigation with her daughter Shira Clara Winter. She signs her films Anat Yuta Zuria in memory of her brother Itai.