Eran Riklis is an Israeli director celebrated for humane dramas examining the human relationships that persist across the Israeli-Palestinian and broader Middle Eastern political divide. The Syrian Bride, following a Druze woman's wedding complicated by the bureaucratic absurdity of crossing the Israeli-Syrian border, established his interest in ordinary people navigating the region's political fault lines with dignity. Lemon Tree, examining a Palestinian widow's legal battle to save her lemon grove from Israeli security demolition, extended his focus on quiet resistance and cross-border relationships rendered with restraint rather than didacticism. Dancing Arabs and Zaytoun continued his consistent examination of Palestinian and Israeli lives intersecting across political conflict. Riklis's humane, even-handed approach to the region's most intractable political conflicts has made him one of the most internationally recognized Israeli directors. Read more