Eran Kolirin

Directing

Eran Kolirin

Born

1973-11-04 (52)

Place of birth

Holon, Israel

Known for

Directing

Credits

13 titles

Eran Kolirin is an Israeli screenwriter and film director. His directorial debut is The Band's Visit (2007), winning eight Awards of the Israeli Film Academy and prizes at several international film festivals. Kolirin himself won the Israeli Film Academy's awards for best director and best screenplay.

Known for

The Band's Visit poster
7.1

A small Egyptian police band travels to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves stuck in the wrong town.

The Band's Visit

2007

Let It Be Morning poster
5.4

Sami was at his parents’ house back in the village, when peace began to break out. He had gone there with his wife and kid for his brother's wedding . Back in the village people told him, “There’s no place like home,” and asked when he’d be coming back, but deep down Sami knew that he had forgotten. You can’t be away for that long without forgetting something.

Let It Be Morning

2021

The Exchange poster
4.8

A family man becomes obsessed with looking at his own life out of context.

The Exchange

2011

Beyond the Mountains and Hills poster
5.3

David is discharged from the army after serving for 27 years. He returns to his home and family after being distanced from them for years, and tries to find himself in his new civilian life. He believes that, like his friends who retired from the military before him, he too will find his way in some managerial position in the private sector, but he has difficulties adapting to the pace of the “new Israel”, a competitive culture obsessed with success and money.

Beyond the Mountains and Hills

2017

The Long Journey poster
6.4

Young Benny is very lonely and has only one dream - to meet his hero Oded Katash, the basketball player.

The Long Journey

2004

Some Notes on the Current Situation poster
NR

A philosophical tragicomedy about space, time, cinema, and wars, composed of six episodes, all together forming an absurdist footnote – somewhat divorced from reality – to the current events in the known universe.

Some Notes on the Current Situation

2025

Behind the camera

The Band's Visit poster
7.1

A small Egyptian police band travels to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves stuck in the wrong town.

The Band's Visit

2007

The Band's Visit poster
7.1

A small Egyptian police band travels to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves stuck in the wrong town.

The Band's Visit

2007

Let It Be Morning poster
5.4

Sami was at his parents’ house back in the village, when peace began to break out. He had gone there with his wife and kid for his brother's wedding . Back in the village people told him, “There’s no place like home,” and asked when he’d be coming back, but deep down Sami knew that he had forgotten. You can’t be away for that long without forgetting something.

Let It Be Morning

2021

Let It Be Morning poster
5.4

Sami was at his parents’ house back in the village, when peace began to break out. He had gone there with his wife and kid for his brother's wedding . Back in the village people told him, “There’s no place like home,” and asked when he’d be coming back, but deep down Sami knew that he had forgotten. You can’t be away for that long without forgetting something.

Let It Be Morning

2021

The Exchange poster
4.8

A family man becomes obsessed with looking at his own life out of context.

The Exchange

2011

The Exchange poster
4.8

A family man becomes obsessed with looking at his own life out of context.

The Exchange

2011

Beyond the Mountains and Hills poster
5.3

David is discharged from the army after serving for 27 years. He returns to his home and family after being distanced from them for years, and tries to find himself in his new civilian life. He believes that, like his friends who retired from the military before him, he too will find his way in some managerial position in the private sector, but he has difficulties adapting to the pace of the “new Israel”, a competitive culture obsessed with success and money.

Beyond the Mountains and Hills

2017

Beyond the Mountains and Hills poster
5.3

David is discharged from the army after serving for 27 years. He returns to his home and family after being distanced from them for years, and tries to find himself in his new civilian life. He believes that, like his friends who retired from the military before him, he too will find his way in some managerial position in the private sector, but he has difficulties adapting to the pace of the “new Israel”, a competitive culture obsessed with success and money.

Beyond the Mountains and Hills

2017

The Long Journey poster
6.4

Young Benny is very lonely and has only one dream - to meet his hero Oded Katash, the basketball player.

The Long Journey

2004

The Long Journey poster
6.4

Young Benny is very lonely and has only one dream - to meet his hero Oded Katash, the basketball player.

The Long Journey

2004

Some Notes on the Current Situation poster
NR

A philosophical tragicomedy about space, time, cinema, and wars, composed of six episodes, all together forming an absurdist footnote – somewhat divorced from reality – to the current events in the known universe.

Some Notes on the Current Situation

2025

Some Notes on the Current Situation poster
NR

A philosophical tragicomedy about space, time, cinema, and wars, composed of six episodes, all together forming an absurdist footnote – somewhat divorced from reality – to the current events in the known universe.

Some Notes on the Current Situation

2025

Zur Hadasim poster
8.0

Shaul, Etti, Illana and Eddi. Each one of these in his own unique, special way, is trying to improve in life. In the end, their desires become revealing dreams that all wish to attain or, at least, to get close to their objectives. The heterogeneous group consisting of Shaul, Etti, Illana and Eddi wake to reality and, in Zur Hadassim, they discover that their dream has always been and always will be ?close to our heart, but far from our reach?.

Zur Hadasim

1999