Yuval Adler

Israeli-American filmmaker Yuval Adler studied Mathematics and Physics and later earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Columbia University. He also studied sculpture and photography at Columbia during that time and participated in various high profile art shows in New York City before switching full time to writing and directing film. He lives in New York City. “The Secrets We Keep” (2020) starring Noomi Rapace. Joel Kinnaman, Chris Messina and Amy Seimetz. Also co-writer. “The Operative” (2019) – Starring Diane Kruger and Martin Freeman. Director, writer. Wrote and Directed “Bethlehem” (2013) – a feature in Hebrew and Arabic. Israel’s Foreign Language Oscar submission for 2014. Venice Film Festival Jury Award. 6 Israeli ‘oscars’. “Taxicab Confessions at Strasberg” – Directed and edited scenes based on dialogue from the HBO classic at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute. (Instead of film school) “Taste”—a short film based on the Roald Dahl story. Adapted for the screen, directed and “Rise and Kill First”. Developed a TV series for HBO based on the NYT bestseller. Wrote the pilot and the bible Bethlehem (2013) won the top prize at the Venice Days section of the 2013 Venice Film Festival. It went on to win six Israeli Film Academy awards, including best picture, best direction and best screenplay and was Israel’s entry for the 2014 Oscars. Acting, Lee Strasberg Theater Institute. Two years with I. Sandrey and R. Castle. Instead of film school ! M.A. Philosophy, Columbia University, New York. Parallel to this: Columbia University Art Department – studio program with Judy Pfaff Bar Ilan University: The end of Metaphysics — reading from Aristotle, Neo Platonism, Kant and Heidegger. Grad or undergrad. Tel Aviv University: led a graduate level reading group on the second division of Being and Time. In particular the notion of Zeitlichkeit. Bar Ilan University: The Question of Being — in Being and Time (1927), On the Essence of Truth (1930), Introduction to Metaphysics (1935), Contributions (36-38). Fall + Spring. Bar Ilan University: Heidegger on the Notion of ‘World’ — graduate level. An examination of Heidegger preoccupation with that notion in the late 20s and the 30s. With Prof. Roman Kossak, a series of reading groups focused on phenomonology and Godel’s fascination with it. We then led close readings of Husserl’s Idea of Phenomenology, Ideas I and some of Heidegger’s early texts (HCT). Writer/Director Yuval Adler studied Mathematics at Tel Aviv University and later moved to New York where he received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Columbia University. Yuval also studied sculpture and photography at Columbia during this time and participated in various high profile shows in New York City before switching full time to writing and directing film. His debut feature Bethlehem won the Venice Days award at the 2013 Venice Film Festival, six Israeli Film Academy awards and was Israel’s entry for the 2014 Oscars. Since then, he has directed and cowritten two features: The Operative, starring Diane Kruger and Martin Freeman, an official selection of the 2019 Berlin Film Festival, and the American thriller The Secrets We Keep, starring Noomi Rapace and Joel Kinnaman. Yuval taught graduate classes in philosophy at BarIlan University between projects. He is wrapping up “Sympathy for the Devil”, starring Nicolas Cage and Joel Kinnaman. The film will be released in the summer of 2023.