Danny Lerner

Danny Lerner was born in 1973

Danny Lerner was born in February 1973. He studied in the film and television department at Tel Aviv University. During his studies he wrote, directed and produced more than 20 short films.

His first feature was the low-budget psychological thriller Frozen Days, made for 25,000 dollars. It premiered at the Haifa International Film Festival in 2005, where it won the prize for Israeli feature film. It was also nominated for 2 Ophir Awards and won prizes at festivals in Belgium and Phoenix.

His second film, the action film Kirot, was an Israeli-French coproduction with a budget of 2 million dollars, starring Ninet Tayeb and Olga Kurylenko. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2009 and was sold for distribution in several countries. In 2011 he received a film art prize from the Ministry of Culture, Science and Sport.

In 2018 he was a second unit director on the youth series Kfula. In 2024 he wrote and directed the adventure comedy Home, and in 2025 a docudrama about Gonen Segev starring Yuval Segal. His films combine Israeli settings with genres less common in Israeli cinema.