Tali Shalom Ezer

Tali Shalom Ezer was born in 1978 in Kfar Saba

Shalom-Ezer was born in Kfar Saba in 1978 and grew up there. Her father immigrated from Iraq and her mother from Romania. Her mother worked as a psychiatric nurse and shaped her interest in psychology.

She studied acting at Beit Zvi and then turned to directing. At Tel Aviv University she studied theatre and then cinema in the Film and Television Department. She received a scholarship from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation for 2005 to 2007.

In the IDF she served as a psychological evaluator. She gave psychometric tests to young Israelis before their enlistment.

She worked as an assistant to theatre and casting directors and as a producer for fringe theatre. Her films include Living Room (2006), Surrogate (2008) and Princess (2014). Princess premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, and My Days of Mercy (2017) was her first film in English.

She has judged at the Jerusalem Film Festival and teaches in the Film and Television Department at Tel Aviv University. She lives in Tel Aviv.