Arad Sawat

Arad Sawat was born in 1975 in Safed

Arad Sawat was born on January 23, 1975, in Safed to a Jewish family. He enlisted in the IDF in 1993 and served in the Intelligence Corps. After his release in 1996 he moved to Tel Aviv.

In 1996 he started working in television as a props man and stylist. In the late 1990s he became a set designer for TV dramas and commercials, often building sets outside the studio. Later he also took on architectural and spatial design for commercial and industrial complexes.

In 2011 he moved into feature film production design, and his first film, Footnote, won him an Ophir Award. He won the award again for Big Bad Wolves in 2013 and Foxtrot in 2017. In 2014 he designed A Tale of Love and Darkness, Natalie Portman's first film as a director, which premiered at Cannes in 2015.

In 2016 he signed with the agency Dattner Dispoto and Associates and turned to international projects. He is in a relationship with director Maysaloun Hamoud, and they have a daughter, Layla. In 2023 the couple founded Layla Productions, and he began co-writing the screenplay Weekend with her.