Duki Dror

Zadok "Duki” Dror (Hebrew: דוקי (צדוק) דרור‎), (born 1963) is an independent Israeli filmmaker whose films explore issues of migration, identity and displacement. Zadok (Duki) Dror was born in Tel Aviv. In the early 1950s, Dror's parents fled from their native Iraq for the newly established state of Israel. When Dror's father was 17 he was arrested on charges of political activism and served five years in prison as a political prisoner. Upon his release, he was not allowed to stay in Iraq. After moving to Israel, the family changed their Arabic name, Darwish (Arabic for "wandering") to Dror (Hebrew for "freedom").Dror studied in the United States at UCLA and is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago.