Biography
Noemi Schory began working as a director in Israel in the mid-1980s. From the beginning, the focus of her work has been in the field of documentary filmmaking. Her early directorial works include "Transport 222" (IL/NL 1986) and "The State of Israel vs. John Ivan Demjanjuk: A Courtroom Drama" (IL/NL 1988).
From 1988 on, she worked mainly as an independent producer for Israeli television, but also on international co-productions. Among the documentaries she has produced are "The Inner Tour" (2001), about a Palestinian sightseeing tour to Israel, the Golda Meir portrait "Golda" (2003), the historical documentary "The Battle for Jerusalem: May 1948" (L/CH 2008), "The Rabbi's Daughter & the Midwife" (IL 2009), the award-winning "A Film Unfinished" (IL/DE 2010), about a never-completed Nazi propaganda film from the Warsaw Ghetto, and "God Forbid" (IL/DE 2011), about ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel.
Schory's other directorial efforts of her own include "Born in Berlin" (IL 1991), "Haute Cuisine Goes Kosher in Jerusalem" (IL 1997), and "Rabin: Shivah in November" (IL 2010). She made 35 short films for the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum and 12 short films for the permanent exhibition in Block 27 at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. From 2007 to 2013, Schory also served as head of the Film Department of the Arts Faculty at Israel's Beit Berl College. She also served as a mentor at various documentary film labs over the years, including Goa, Sarajevo, Tbilisi, Budapest and Turin.
In August 2021, Noemi Schory presented her documentary "Schocken - A German Life" (IL/DE), a portrait of German Jewish entrepreneur, patron and publisher Salman Schocken (1877-1959), at the Berlin Brandenburg Jewish Film Festival. The film was released in November 2021.