Movies: Amos Gitai

Wadi is a valley located east of Haifa. A former stone quarry, it is a sort of enclave where Eastern European immigrants, survivors of the camps, live in a state of fragile coexistence with Arabs who have also been expelled from their homes....

Can a house be a metaphor for Arab-Jewish relations in Israel? Amos Gitai returns to the house in West Jerusalem he profiled in 1980. He interviews members of the Jewish families who live there, and he talks with the Arab family who lived in the hous...

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

The story of various journeys through the West Bank and Gaza Strip occupied territories during the months leading up to Israel's invasion of Lebanon....

In this film, the itinerary of Flavius Josephus at the time of the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in AD 70 crosses that of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated in 1995, and the memory of the Holocaust through images of Poland. Milim ref...

In Thailand half a million women work as prostitutes while men leave the country as low-paid labourers in the Gulf Emirates. A film on the trade of human beings and economic relations in the modern world....

Documentary about a house and its politically divided ownership over time....

Documentary about the process canned pineapple takes from cultivation to sale....

With the feel of experimental film, Gitai mixes storytelling, readers' theater, cityscapes (usually seen from moving trains), and desolate landscapes to mediate on the act of creation. What if a golem were fashioned out of dirt, much like Adam, and c...

1972 Gitai super8 short film...

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An essay parable, part documentary part fiction, on the desire for a leader, anchored in Brecht’s 1935 poem A Worker Reads History....

What is under discussion is the actual construction of the state of Israel, its history and identity, besides the oedipal theme for an architect-filmmaker. An informed and intelligent man, Gitai manages to take his conversations to non-conventional p...

House is the story of a house in West-Jerusalem: abandoned during the 1948 war by its owner, a Palestinian doctor; requisitioned by the Israeli government as "vacant'; rented to Jewish Algerian immigrants in 1956; purchased by a university professor ...

Movie houses in 1930s Poland and present-day Israel are attacked....

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1972 Gitai super8 short film...

1973 Gitai super8 short...

1972 Gitai super8 short film...

1973 Gitai super8 short film...