Yariv Mozer

Yariv Mozer was born in 1978 in Tel Aviv

Yariv Mozer was born in Tel Aviv on 17 February 1978 and grew up in Herzliya. His parents, Hani and Giora Mozer, both worked for the Shin Bet. His maternal grandfather, Yehoshua Nishri, was a Holocaust survivor saved by Japanese consul Chiune Sugihara.

He studied theater at Alon High School in Ramat HaSharon. He later graduated with distinction from the Department of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University. He served as an armament officer in the Artillery Corps.

In 2004 he directed the 10th Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival. From 2005 to 2007 he was a supervising producer at Alma Films, and from 2007 to 2011 he headed a production track at the Sam Spiegel Film School. In 2006 he founded Mozer Films.

His documentaries include My First War, about his time in the Second Lebanon War, The Invisible Men, about gay Palestinians, and Ben-Gurion, Epilogue, which won the Ophir Award in 2017. His first feature film, Snails in the Rain, came out in 2013. Later works include Eizenkot, a series on the Eichmann tapes, and We Will Dance Again about the Nova festival massacre.

Since 2018 he has taught at the Steve Tisch Film School at Tel Aviv University. He is a member of the European Film Academy and the Israeli Academy of Film and Television.