Amos Gitai Movies

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. "A chronicle of the successful protest efforts of a small Los Angeles community...

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...

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

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...

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

A short film made for "Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded". A narrator speaks while a series of images of a man walking along the seashore are shown.

1973 Gitai super8 short film

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,...

1974 Gitai super8 short film

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...

1972 Gitai super8 short film

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

1972 Gitai super8 short film

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

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.

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