Oded Davidoff

Oded Davidoff was born in 1967 in Jerusalem

Oded Davidoff was born in Jerusalem in 1967. He is the son of football player and coach David Davidoff. As a child he lived in the Bukharan Quarter and later moved to Ramot.

He studied at the Sam Spiegel School of Film and Television and graduated with honors. His first film, Octane 96, received a citation at a 1993 short film competition. His graduation film, In Good Hands (1994), won awards at the Munich festival and other festivals.

In 2001 he directed Turkish March, a comedy thriller loosely based on a novel by Limor Nachmias. In 2005 he directed Someone to Run With, based on David Grossman's novel. Its film version opened the Jerusalem Film Festival in 2006, the first Israeli film to do so.

He directed the comedy series Hakol Dvash and the thriller series Pillars of Smoke, and won Israeli Television Academy directing awards for both. His 2012 film The Dealers received poor reviews. Later he worked on the series Missing File, Trying Dad, The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem and Malach Mashchit.

He was married to director Dafna Levin. He has 3 children.