Screenplay: Amos Gitai

Direction Amos Gitai

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

Plot 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...

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...

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...

Direction Amos Gitai

Plot '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...

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

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

Plot 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...

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,...

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,...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

Direction Amos Gitai

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

Direction Amos Gitai

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

Plot 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...

Direction Amos Gitai

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

Plot 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...

Direction Amos Gitai

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

Plot 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...

Direction Amos Gitai

Plot 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,...

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.

Direction Amos Gitai

Cast Irène Jacob · Hanna Laslo · Yaël Abecassis · Bahira Ablassi

Plot The lives of 20 characters who live in a massive social housing project in the Negev desert.

Direction Amos Gitai

Plot 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 government as "vacant'; rented to Jewish...

Direction Amos Gitai

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Hanna Schygulla · Ran Danker · Yaël Abecassis

Plot Documentary based on the life of Amos Gitai's father.