Noaz Deshe is a Berlin-based film director, cinematographer, composer and visual artist. His debut feature, White Shadow (2013), won the Lion of the Future award at the 2013 Venice Film Festival. His second feature, Xoftex (2024), is set in a Greek refugee camp and premiered in competition at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Career Deshe composed the soundtrack for Babak Jalali’s debut feature film Frontier Blues.
Deshe's feature debut White Shadow (2013) tells a story of albino persecution in Central Africa. The film brought Deshe the Lion of the Future Award at the Venice Film Festival 2013.
His sophomore feature, Xoftex, premiered at Karlovy Vary Film Festival in 2024. Deshe confesses that the film grew from his experience in Softex, a Greek refugee camp mostly filled by Syrian and Palestinian asylum seekers fleeing war in the Middle East.
Deshe's upcoming project is a collaboration with Pussy Riot's Pyotr Verzilov. Filmography YearTitleRoleNotes2001BoysgirlsDirectorShort film2001Search Agent ZeroxDirectorShort film2009Frontier BluesComposerDirected by Babak Jalali2013Area K: A Political Fishing DocumentaryCinematographerDocumentary2013White ShadowDirector, writer, cinematographer, editor, composerLion of the Future, Venice 20132016Radio DreamsCinematographerDirected by Babak Jalali2024XoftexDirector, co-writer, cinematographer, co-editor, co-composerSpecial Jury Mention, Karlovy Vary 2024
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