Sarah Yona Zweig

Sarah grew up as a horse acrobat in Germany before she immigrated to Israel. Besides the Hebrew University of Jerusalem she studied at the Sorbonne and the Pontifical Gregorian University. Sarah is now a PhD student in the Department of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the guidance of Dr. Joseph Witztum and Dr. Naphtali Meshel.

After her MA she worked in cinema and journalism for over a decade. Her work as a filmmaker is driven by a strong sense of social justice and by a wish to explore visual parallels of emotional states. She has lived, volunteered, reported and documented from India, China, Mongolia, Russia, the Syrian border, refugee camps of Germany, Israel and the Palestinian territories and most recently, from the Ukrainian border.

She was a fellow in the residence program at the Doha Institute for Advanced Studies and a research fellow at the India International Centre, New Delhi. In her free time, Sarah likes to stand on her hands, play the oud disharmoniously, to make furniture out of discarded wood and explore hidden places.