Noaz Deshe

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Noaz Deshe
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Noaz Deshe is an Israel-born Berlin-based film director. [1] [2] Deshe claims that the only citizenship he holds is Romanian. [3]

Deshe composed the soundtrack for Babak Jalali’s debut feature film Frontier Blues. [4]

Deshe's feature debut White Shadow (2013) tells a story of albino persecution in Central Africa. [5] [6] The film brought Deshe the Lion of the Future Award at the Venice Film Festival 2013. [3]

His sophomore feature, Xoftex, premiered at Karlovy Vary Film Festival in 2024. Deshe confesses that the film grew from his experience in Softex, a Greek refugee camp mostly filled by Syrian and Palestinian asylum seekers fleeing war in the Middle East. [6] [7] [3]

Deshe's upcoming project is a collaboration with Pussy Riot's Pyotr Verzilov. [5]

Filmography

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References

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