Efim Graboy was born in 1989 in Kazan, Russia. His family immigrated to Israel when he was 10 years old. Steve Tisch School of Film & Television, Tel Aviv University alumnus. His short films won many awards at international film festivals and are exhibited in contemporary art museums. In 2019 his film Valley of the Rulers was nominated for IDA Best Short Film. In 2020 The War of Raya Sinitsina was a great success as Efim’s debut feature film, winning nine international awards in total, including Best Directing and Cinematography at DocAviv. The film also received prizes from The Israeli Documentary Forum as Best Debut Film and for Best Cinematographer and a Special Prize For High Artistic Achievements in the Documentary from the Russian Documentary Film and Television Guild. Since 2021, Efim lives and creates in Israel and Serbia.
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