Amos Gitai Movies

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,...

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...

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

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

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

1973 Gitai super8 short film

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...

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...

1972 Gitai super8 short film

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.

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

1972 Gitai super8 short film

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

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

After of Waves 1 (1972) Amos Gitai made another short film entitled Waves 2, in 1976 and again in Super-8.

1972 Gitai super8 short film

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