Marie-José Sanselme is a screenwriter. After studying literature, she worked as a cultural attaché at the French Embassy in Tel Aviv (1994-1998). Kippur (2000) marks the beginning of her collaboration, uninterrupted since then, with Amos Gitai, with whom she has written the screenplays of several fiction films: Eden (2001), Kedma (2002), Alila (2003), Promised Land (2004), Free Zone (2005), Disengagement (2007), One Day You'll Understand (2008), Roses à crédit (2010), Ana Arabia (2013), Tsili (2014), Rabin the Last Day (2015), A Tramway in Jerusalem (2018), Laila in Haifa (2020) and for the theatre The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness (2009) and Yitzhak Rabin: Chronicle of an Assassination (2016).
