Amos Gitai Movies

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

Gitai pays homage to Albert Camus and explores the return to Palestinian villages while interjecting texts by Izhar Smilansky, Emile Habibi, Mahmoud...

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

1973 Gitai super8 short

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

1972 Gitai super8 short film

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

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

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

1972 Gitai super8 short film

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...