Amos Gitai Movies

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

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

What is under discussion is the actual construction of the state of Israel, its history and identity, besides the oedipal theme for an...

1972 Gitai super8 short film

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...

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

1974 Gitai super8 short film

1973 Gitai super8 short

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 peace...

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

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...

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,...

Inspired by the "The wind of cinema" festival which every year deals with issues relating to the relationship between cinema and philosophy, it shows...

1992. In Wuppertal, in Germany, two skinheads killed a man who claimed to be Jewish. Amos Gitai questions the witnesses, the residents, and the...

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

1973 Gitai super8 short film

1972 Gitai super8 short film

1972 Gitai super8 short film