Tali Shemesh

Tali Shemesh was born in 1969 in Jerusalem

Tali Shemesh was born in Jerusalem in 1969. She graduated from the Sam Spiegel film school in Jerusalem.

After her studies she directed dozens of segments for investigative and documentary television programs, including Uvda with Ilana Dayan. In 1999 she directed the documentary Fat and Beautiful for Channel 8. In 2004 she directed White Gold Black Work, about the treatment of contract workers at the Dead Sea Works, and the film drew wide public reaction.

Her feature documentary The Cemetery Club follows a group of elderly Holocaust survivors from Poland who meet every week at the Mount Herzl cemetery. The film opened the DocAviv festival and won awards in Israel and abroad, including at the Shanghai International Film Festival.

With her husband Asaf Sudri she co-directed Death in the Terminal in 2016, about the 2015 attack at the Beersheba central bus station and the killing of Habtoum Zarhoum. The film won Best Film at DocAviv in 2016. The pair later made a film about the Kulanu party's 2015 election campaign and, in 2020, the documentary series The Motive about the Ein Karem murder case.