Screenplay: Marie-José Sanselme
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Marie-José Sanselme. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
11'09''01 - September 11
2002 · Documentary · 130 min. · France
Direction Samira Makhmalbaf · Claude Lelouch · Youssef Chahine · Danis Tanovic
Cast Ernest Borgnine · Ken Ogata · Tetsurô Tanba · Tomorô Taguchi
Plot 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...
6.6
3K votes
6.6
3K votes
Rabin, the Last Day
2015 · Documentary · 153 min. · Israel
Direction Amos Gitai
Cast Ischac Hiskiya · Pini Mitelman · Michael Warshaviak · Einat Weizman
Plot 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...
6.5
100 votes
6.5
100 votes
Promised Land
2004 · Movie · 90 min. · Israel
Direction Amos Gitai
Cast Rosamund Pike · Diana Bespenchi · Anne Parillaud · Hanna Schygulla
Plot 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,...
5.9
161 votes
5.9
161 votes
Disengagement
2007 · Movie · 115 min. · Israel
Direction Amos Gitai
Cast Juliette Binoche · Liron Levo · Jeanne Moreau · Dana Ivgy
Plot 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,...
5.7
49 votes
5.7
49 votes
Alila
2003 · Movie · 120 min. · Israel
Direction Amos Gitai
Cast Yaël Abecassis · Uri Klauzner · Hanna Laslo · Ronit Elkabetz
Plot 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)...
5.6
166 votes
5.6
166 votes
Free Zone
2005 · Movie · 94 min. · Israel
Direction Amos Gitai
Cast Natalie Portman · Hanna Laslo · Hiam Abbass · Carmen Maura
Plot 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...
5.6
2K votes
5.6
2K votes
Kedma
2002 · Movie · 100 min. · Israel
Direction Amos Gitai
Cast Roman Hazanowski · Menachem Lang · Juliano Mer · Yussuf Abu-Warda
Plot 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...
5.5
134 votes
5.5
134 votes
Kippur
2000 · Movie · 116 min. · Israel
Direction Amos Gitai
Cast Liron Levo · Tomer Russo · Uri Klauzner · Yoram Hattab
Plot The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights...
5.4
251 votes
5.4
251 votes
Eden
2001 · Movie · 91 min. · Israel
Direction Amos Gitai
Cast Samantha Morton · Thomas Jane · Luke Holland · Danny Huston
5.2
96 votes
5.2
96 votes
Laila in Haifa
2020 · Movie · 99 min. · Israel
Direction Amos Gitai
Cast Maria Zreik · Khawla Ibraheem · Bahira Ablassi · Naama Preis
Plot The interweaving stories of five women that live a series of encounters and situations, defying all categories and labels in their relationships and personal identities.
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Roses à crédit
2010 · Movie · 101 min. · France
Direction Amos Gitai
Cast Léa Seydoux · Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet · Catherine Jacob · Pierre Arditi
Plot A young couple marry in France in the 1940s and the film follows the arc of their marriage over the next decade. As France recovers from the trauma of the...
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A Tramway in Jerusalem
2018 · Movie · 90 min. · Israel
Direction Amos Gitai
Cast Noa Ahinoamam Nini · Mathieu Amalric · Hanna Laslo · Yaël Abecassis
Plot In Jerusalem the tramway connects several neighbourhoods, from East to West, recording their variety and differences. The film brings together a whole mosaic of human beings unfolding in this city...
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No Man's Zone
2012 · Documentary · 103 min. · Japan
Direction Toshi Fujiwara
Cast Arsinée Khanjian
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