Amos Gitai

A diverse cross-section of Israeli society converges in a single multi-use building, the Shikun. As people of different languages, origins and ...

The film was shot entirely in a nightclub, with an adjoining contemporary art gallery, whose customers are both Israelis and Palestinians, in one ...

Itzhak Rabin’s murder ended all efforts of peace, and with him the whole left wing of Israel died. The movie shows the last of his days as ...

The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. Comprised of several short films by some of ...

Made for the Venice Film Festival’s 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their ...

The film intertwines historical events and intimate memories. I observe how architecture represents the transformations of society and those who ...

A young couple marry in France in the 1940s and the film follows the arc of their marriage over the next decade. As France recovers from the ...

Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï offers a look impressionist long history of armed conflict in their nation.

A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, “To Each His Own Cinema” brought together 33 of the ...

A political drama centered around Israel’s pullout from the occupied Gaza strip, in which a French woman of Israeli origin comes to the ...

Rebecca, an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off her engagement. She gets into a cab driven by ...

All the feature is given prestige to by the narration in Caetano Veloso’s voice, that also signs one of the segments of the project. São ...

“Promised Land” tells the story of a group of young unwitting Estonian girls smuggled through Egypt to be auctioned off as ...

Life in a Tel Aviv apartment complex, an urban mosaic whose seedy characters, try as they might, can’t get out of one another’s ...

An anthology of short films inspired by the events of the September 11 World Trade Center attacks.

In May 1948, shortly before the creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of immigrants from across Europe arrive in Palestine–only to risk ...

In 1939, Kalman, an ambitious young businessman, leaves Europe to join his sister Samantha in Palestine. She lives with Dov, an idealistic ...

The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. The story is ...

The year 2000 approaches in Jerusalem’s Orthodox Mea Shearim quarter, where the women work, keep house, and have children so the men can ...

In spite of blood ties to both Haifa’s Jewish and Arab populations, Moshe (Moshe Ivgy) leads a rootless existence. Grown weary of his ...

In the train on the way to the Festival in Vesoul, filmmakers Amos Gitai and Elia Suleiman talk about the subjects that preoccupy them: war and ...

This documentary by Amos Gitai is a personal look at the aftermath of the Rabin assassination.

Drama – This Israeli drama tells the story of three men living in Tel Aviv. They set off to attend a funeral. Unfortunately, they cannot ...

Danny Cornish, a sort of stateless man who arranges art exhibits, is called from Tel Aviv to Paris with the news that a great uncle has died, in ...

An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film tells the story of a woman (similar to the ...

Two interconnected stories in the 1930s, one set in Berlin, the other in Palestine: Mania Vilbouchevich Shohat (1880-1961), called Tania, a ...

Japan, 1986. At the tail end of the world tour promoting their latest album Revenge, Eurythmics tops the charts. Between concerts, pop duo Annie ...

Ahasverus, king of Persia and Media, puts aside Vashti and makes Esther his queen, choosing her among maidens in a kingdom stretching from India ...