Direction: Amos Gitai

Direction Amos Gitai

Cast Yaël Abecassis · Meital Barda · Yoram Hattab · Uri Klauzner

Synopsis Meir and Rivka have been married for ten years. They love each other but suffer for not having children, and this becomes a source of conflict within their community. The rabbi decrees: in order to maintain his family line, the...

Direction Samira Makhmalbaf · Claude Lelouch · Youssef Chahine · Danis Tanovic

Cast Ernest Borgnine · Ken Ogata · Tetsurô Tanba · Tomorô Taguchi

Synopsis A reaction piece to the United States' terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, this controversial film calls upon eleven directors from various countries to contribute 11-minute 9-second films about the event. Variously political, violent, disturbing, abstract, opinionated,... A reaction piece...

Direction Amos Gitai

Cast Ischac Hiskiya · Pini Mitelman · Michael Warshaviak · Einat Weizman

Synopsis On the evening of Saturday, November 4, 1995, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is shot down at the end of a huge political rally in the center of Tel-Aviv. His killer apprehended at the scene turns out to be a 25-year-old...

Direction Amos Gitai

Synopsis 'West of the Jordan River' describes the efforts of citizens, Israelis and Palestinians, who are trying to overcome the consequences of occupation. Gitai’s film shows the human ties woven by the military, human rights activists, journalists, mourning mothers and even...

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos · Olivier Assayas · Bille August · Jane Campion

Cast Cindy Beckett · Audrey Dana · Jacques Frantz · George Babluani

Synopsis To Each His Cinema is a 2007 film, produced and conceived by Gilles Jacob, celebrating the Cannes Film Festival's 60th anniversary. The film is comprised of a collection of 35 three-minute short films by some of the world's leading directors,...

Direction Amos Gitai

Cast Rosamund Pike · Diana Bespenchi · Anne Parillaud · Hanna Schygulla

Synopsis A night in the Sinai desert. A group of men and women are keeping warm around a camp fire under the moonlight. The women come from Eastern Europe. The men, who normally tend their herds in the area, are Bedouins....

Direction Amos Gitai

Cast Juliette Binoche · Liron Levo · Jeanne Moreau · Dana Ivgy

Synopsis Disengagement clearly refers to the Israeli government’s current policies of withdrawal from Gaza and the forced destruction of illegal settlements established by Israeli citizens in the region’s disputed areas. But, in the imaginative hands of Amos Gitai, disengagement takes on...

Direction Amos Gitai

Cast Yaël Abecassis · Uri Klauzner · Hanna Laslo · Ronit Elkabetz

Synopsis Amos Gitai's ALILA intertwines the stories of over a dozen distinct characters who inhabit an apartment complex located in a rundown neighborhood of Tel Aviv. Holocaust survivor Schwartz (Yosef Carmon) has enjoyed a peaceful existence living in his small apartment...

Direction Amos Gitai

Cast Natalie Portman · Hanna Laslo · Hiam Abbass · Carmen Maura

Synopsis Rebecca (Natalie Portman), an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off her engagement. She gets into a cab driven by Hanna (Hanna Laslo), an Israeli. But Hanna is on her way...

Direction Amos Gitai

Cast Roman Hazanowski · Menachem Lang · Juliano Mer · Yussuf Abu-Warda

Synopsis Set seven days before the creation of the state of Israel in May 1948, a small rusted ship, with a group of concentration camp survivors from Shoah, is received at the new territory with open hostility. They are met by...

Direction Amos Gitai

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Hippolyte Girardot · Emmanuelle Devos · Dominique Blanc

Synopsis Memory is a double-edged sword, and in Plus tard, tu comprendras, Amos Gitaï explores this truism in the most subtle and emotionally powerful manner. This most talented director has found a perfect subject for his increasingly spare and formal style,...

Direction Amos Gitai

Cast Liron Levo · Tomer Russo · Uri Klauzner · Yoram Hattab

Synopsis The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights...

Direction Guillermo Arriaga · Héctor Babenco · Bahman Ghobadi · Emir Kusturica

Cast Demian Bichir · Emir Kusturica · Sarai Givaty · Emilio Echevarría

Synopsis Composed of 10 short films on the major religions in the world. The directors are: Jose Padilha (Brazil), Warwick Thornton (Australia), Bahman Ghobadi (Iran), Mira Nair (India), Hideo Nakata (Japan), Emir Kusturica (Serbia) and Guillermo Arriaga (Mexico). This whole film,...

Direction Hala Abdallah · Karim Aïnouz · John Akomfrah · Catherine Breillat

Cast Bernardo Bertolucci · Tygh Runyan · Shannyn Sossamon · Michele Placido

Synopsis 70 short movies about cinema and its future.

Direction Amos Gitai

Cast Samantha Morton · Thomas Jane · Luke Holland · Danny Huston

Direction Amos Gitai

Cast Simone Benyamini · Mohammed Bakri · Juliano Mer · Zare Vartanian

Synopsis 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 Ethiopia. Esther, using information from Mordecai, her uncle and patron, saves the king from assassination....

Direction Amos Gitai

Cast Hanna Schygulla · Vittorio Mezzogiorno · Ophrah Shemesh · Samuel Fuller

Synopsis An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film tells the story of a woman (similar to the biblical Ruth) and her sisters, who are forced into exile after the death of their husbands....

Direction Amos Gitai

Cast Gabi Beniashvilly · Samuel Calderon · Helena Cherkasov · David Cohen

Synopsis In Tel Aviv, people prepare food, eat, make love, get pregnant, and die. Can one find peace in this life, asks one character at a wake; can there be an act of freedom in this modern life, asks another. Goldman's...

Direction Amos Gitai

Cast Jerome Koenig · Hanna Schygulla · Samuel Fuller · Masha Itkina

Synopsis Danny Cornish, a sort of stateless man who arranges art exhibits, is called from Tel Aviv to Paris with the news that a great uncle has died, in Birobidjan, the autonomous Jewish zone in Russia, leaving him a valuable art...

Direction Amos Gitai

Synopsis Twenty years after his first Wadi, Amos Gitai returns for the third time to Wadi Rushmia. The site has been almost entirely destroyed by real-estate developers. Yussef and his wife, guardians of the place and of its history, still live...