Alma Har'el

Alma Har'el (b.1976, Tel Aviv, Israel), director of music videos and documentaries, gained a name for her ability to blur the line between nonfiction and acted creations, and not only through the copious inclusion of dance choreography in her films.

Her feature debut Bombay Beach (2011) limns a portrait of a community living on the shores of the Salton Sea, one of the poorest regions of Southern California. Creative imagination, like the impulse Har'el heeded when she introduced music and dance elements into a narrative about the flipside of the American dream, earned the movie a screening at Berlin and Best Documentary at New York's Tribeca Festival. She has received no less success for directing music videos: in 2013 her entry for "Fjögur píanó," a song by Icelandic band Sigur Rós, took a prestigious Webby Award. LoveTrue is the director's second feature-length documentary.

MFF Karlovy Vary