Noaz Deshe

Noaz Deshe is a Berlin-based Israeli-born film director and composer, known for the films White Shadow and Xoftex.

born 1977The film White ShadowThe film XoftexVenice Lion of the Future awardMusic for Frontier Blues

Born: 22 August 1977, Jaffa
Occupation: film director, screenwriter, composer, director

Noaz Deshe was born in 1977 in Jaffa

Noaz Deshe was born on August 22, 1977, in Jaffa. He later settled in Berlin, where he works as a film director, cinematographer, composer and visual artist.

Deshe wrote the music for Frontier Blues, the first feature film by director Babak Jalali. His own first feature, White Shadow, came out in 2013. It deals with the persecution of people with albinism in Central Africa and won the Lion of the Future award at the 2013 Venice Film Festival.

His second feature, Xoftex, premiered in competition at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2024. The film is set in a Greek refugee camp and grew out of his time at Softex, a camp housing mainly Syrian and Palestinian asylum seekers. His next project is a collaboration with Pyotr Verzilov of Pussy Riot.