Yossi Atia

Yossi Atia (; born 1979) is an Israeli artist, active primarily as a film director, video artist, and actor.

Biography Yossi Atia was born in 1979, in Jerusalem, to a Sephardic Jewish family. Studied directing and production at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, Jerusalem (2004). Studied in Tel Aviv University, earned a BA in literature in 2007. Studied for his MFA in Directing and Production in Tel Aviv University's Film Department (2010).

From 2005 to 2010, Atia created and acted, together with Itamar Rose, in twenty short films. These were satirical short movies on contentious social and political issues. Their movies aimed that people take a new look at their reality and at disturbing issues. Their movies deal with homosexuality, grief, rape, occupation, suicide bombing and the war in Lebanon. In 2010. he created an Urban Comical Performance in Tel Aviv called "From a Fling to a Relationship".

In August 2012, Atia led a guided tour named “from trauma to fantasy", which was held as part of the cultural season in Jerusalem 4 times. The tour took place at Jerusalem's Jaffa Road following the footsteps of the Palestinian suicide bombings that had occurred in the area from 2000 to 2005. The tour was recorded for a film Atia is making.

Atia lives and works in Tel Aviv.