Career
In 1993, Nadjari started working for French television as a writer and director In 1997, he wrote the television screenplay Le P"tit Bleu, which was directed by Francois Vautier for Arte as part of the television drama collection Petits Gangsters. The same year he wrote and directed his first United States feature, The Shade (released in 1999), which starred Richard Edson, Lorie Marino, and Jeff Ware).
lieutenant was an adaptation of A Gentle Creature by Dostoevsky that Nadjari updated, setting it in contemporary New York City.
This film was an official selection for Un Certain Regard at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival and also appeared at the Deauville Film Festival. The film was awarded in Bergamo Film Festival (Italy).
At the end of 1999, Nadjari directed his second feature, I Am Josh Polonski"s Brother (2001). Starring Richard Edson and Jeff Ware, it was shot on Super 8 mm film in New New York
The film opened in Paris on June 6, 2001, and was selected for the Forum for New Cinema at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2001.
The same year, Nadjari shot the film Apartment #5c in New New York lieutenant was released in 2002. The film starred Richard Edson and Tinkerbell, an Israeli actress, and was selected in Cannes" Director"s Forthnight.
In 2009, his documentary A History of Israeli Cinema, a two-episode film of 104 minutes each, telling the story of Israeli Cinema since 1933 until today, was screened at the Berlin film festival forum.
In 2013, A Strange Course of Events, a film set in Haifa was screened in the Directors" Fortnight section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
