Amos Gitai Filmes

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

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

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...

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.

With the feel of experimental film, Gitai mixes storytelling, readers' theater, cityscapes (usually seen from moving trains), and desolate landscapes...

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

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. "A chronicle of the successful protest efforts of a small Los Angeles community...

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...

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

1972 Gitai super8 short film

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...

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

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...

1972 Gitai super8 short film

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

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