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Tag Archives: Amos Gitai
A House in Jerusalem AKA Bait be Yerushalayim (1998) Amos Gitai
Can a house be a metaphor for Arab-Jewish relations in Israel? Amos Gitai returns to the house Read More »
The Arena of Murder AKA Zirat Ha’Rezach (1996) Amos Gitai, Samuel Calderon, David Cohen, Aviv Geffen
This documentary by Amos Gitai is a personal look at the aftermath of the Rabin assassination. Read More »
The House AKA Bayit (1980) Amos Gitai
At a stone quarry above Hebron, Arab stonecutters work without explosives to cut away Read More »
Field Diary AKA Yoman Sadeh (1982) Amos Gitai
In 1982, Amos Gitai and a film crew travel around the occupied territories of the Gaza Strip Read More »
Esther (1986) Amos Gitai, Simone Benyamini, Mohammad Bakri, Juliano Mer-Khamis
Ahasverus, king of Persia and Media, puts aside Vashti and makes Esther his queen Read More »
Things AKA Zihron Devarim (1995) Amos Gitai, Gabi Beniashvilly, Samuel Calderon, Helena Cherkasov
Can you find peace in this lifetime, asks one character in a wake Read More »
Promised Land AKA Ha-Aretz Hamuvtachat (2004) Amos Gitai, Rosamund Pike, Diana Bespechni, Hanna Schygulla
“Promised Land” tells the story of a group of young unwitting Estonian girls Read More »
Roses on Credit AKA Roses à crédit (2010) Amos Gitai, Léa Seydoux, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Catherine Jacob
A young couple marry in France in the 1940s and the film follows the arc of their marriage over the next decade. Read More »
Golem, the Spirit of the Exile AKA Golem, l’esprit de l’exil (1992) Amos Gitai, Hanna Schygulla, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Ophrah Shemesh
An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement Read More »
Eden (2001) Amos Gitai, Samantha Morton, Thomas Jane, Luke Holland
Is the story of Samantha and Dov Ernst, American Zionists who emigrated to Palestine. Read More »
Berlin-Jerusalem AKA Berlin-Yerushalaim (1989) Amos Gitai, Lisa Kreuzer, Rivka Neuman, Markus Stockhausen
Two interconnected stories in the 1930s, one set in Berlin, the other in Palestine Read More »
Kippur (2000) Amos Gitai, Liron Levo, Tomer Russo, Uri Klauzner
The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. Read More »
Alila (2003) Amos Gitai, Yaël Abecassis, Hana Laszlo, Uri Klauzner
In Tel Aviv, the gloomy Ezra hires foreign workers without permits to build an addition to a homely block of flats Read More »
Ananas (1984) Amos Gitai, Documentary
One day, when I opened my refrigerator, I looked closely at a can of pineapple. It had been “made in the Philippines,” “packaged in Honolulu,” “distributed in San Francisco” and the label “printed in Japan”. Read More »