Amos Gitai Trailers
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Amos Gitai (born 11 October 1950 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli film director.
Most Popular Amos Gitai Trailers
Total trailers found: 56
Lullaby to my Father Trailer (2012)
30 October 2012
The film intertwines historical events and intimate memories. I observe how architecture represents the transformations of society and those who give form to this architecture.
Free Zone Trailer (2005)
18 April 2005
Rebecca, an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off her engagement.
Rabin, the Last Day Trailer (2015)
04 November 2015
Itzhak Rabin's murder ended all efforts of peace, and with him the whole left wing of Israel died. The movie shows the last of his days as prime minister, and what led to his murder.
Eden Trailer (2001)
29 August 2001
In 1939, Kalman, an ambitious young businessman, leaves Europe to join his sister Samantha in Palestine.
Disengagement Trailer (2007)
07 September 2007
A political drama centered around Israel's pullout from the occupied Gaza strip, in which a French woman of Israeli origin comes to the Gaza Strip to find her long ago abandoned daughter.
Alila Trailer (2003)
06 June 2003
Life in a Tel Aviv apartment complex, an urban mosaic whose seedy characters, try as they might, can't get out of one another's faces.
Words with Gods Trailer (2014)
20 November 2014
The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. Comprised of several short films by some of the world's most exciting directors, Words with Gods follows the theme of religion - specifically as it relates to an individual's relationship with his/her god or gods.
Welcome to São Paulo Trailer (2004)
16 July 2004
All the feature is given prestige to by the narration in Caetano Veloso's voice, that also signs one of the segments of the project.
Laila in Haifa Trailer (2021)
01 September 2021
The film was shot entirely in a nightclub, with an adjoining contemporary art gallery, whose customers are both Israelis and Palestinians, in one of Israel’s most open cities, Haifa.
Day After Day Trailer (1998)
02 September 1998
In spite of blood ties to both Haifa's Jewish and Arab populations, Moshe (Moshe Ivgy) leads a rootless existence.
Kippur Trailer (2000)
07 September 2000
The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights.
Kadosh Trailer (1999)
10 June 1999
The year 2000 approaches in Jerusalem's Orthodox Mea Shearim quarter, where the women work, keep house, and have children so the men can study the Torah and the Talmud.
One Day You'll Understand Trailer (2008)
01 January 2008
A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Roses à crédit Trailer (2010)
09 September 2010
A young couple marry in France in the 1940s and the film follows the arc of their marriage over the next decade.
Berlin-Jerusalem Trailer (1989)
03 February 1989
Two interconnected stories in the 1930s, one set in Berlin, the other in Palestine: Mania Vilbouchevich Shohat (1880-1961), called Tania, a Russian Jew and revolutionary, goes from Minsk to Palestine to live on a collective.
Tsili Trailer (2014)
01 September 2014
Tsili is a young girl caught in the middle of World War II. After her family is taken to a concentration camp, Tsili hides in the forest, free from hatred and men, until the arrival of Marek, a stranger who speaks to her in Yiddish.
Ana Arabia Trailer (2013)
02 September 2013
Filmed in one sequence-shot of 1 hour and 25 minutes, Ana Arabia is a moment in the life of a small community of outcasts, Jews and Arabs, who live together in a forgotten enclave at the “border” between Jaffa and Bat Yam, in Israel.
Golem, the Spirit of Exile Trailer (1992)
24 September 1992
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.
To Each His Own Cinema Trailer (2007)
31 October 2007
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
Charisma Trailer (1976)
01 January 1976
An essay parable, part documentary part fiction, on the desire for a leader, anchored in Brecht’s 1935 poem A Worker Reads History.
A Letter to a Friend in Gaza Trailer (2018)
03 September 2018
Gitai pays homage to Albert Camus and explores the return to Palestinian villages while interjecting texts by Izhar Smilansky, Emile Habibi, Mahmoud Darwish, and Amira Hass.
In the Valley of the Wupper Trailer (1994)
11 February 1994
1992. In Wuppertal, in Germany, two skinheads killed a man who claimed to be Jewish. Amos Gitai questions the witnesses, the residents, and the protagonists of the trial.
Esther Trailer (1986)
01 January 1986
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.
Birth of a Golem Trailer (1990)
27 August 1990
With the feel of experimental film, Gitai mixes storytelling, readers' theater, cityscapes (usually seen from moving trains), and desolate landscapes to mediate on the act of creation.
A House in Jerusalem Trailer (1998)
09 April 1998
Can a house be a metaphor for Arab-Jewish relations in Israel? Amos Gitai returns to the house in West Jerusalem he profiled in 1980.
Venice 70: Future Reloaded Trailer (2013)
28 August 2013
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.
Brand New Day Trailer (1987)
14 August 1987
Japan, 1986. At the tail end of the world tour promoting their latest album Revenge, Eurythmics tops the charts.
Carmel Trailer (2009)
12 July 2009
Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï offers a look impressionist long history of armed conflict in their nation.
11’09”01—September 11 Trailer (2002)
04 September 2002
Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length – that offer differing perspectives on the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
West of the Jordan River Trailer (2018)
15 March 2018
Amos Gitai returns to the occupied territories for the first time since his 1982 documentary FIELD DIARY.
A Tramway in Jerusalem Trailer (2019)
24 April 2019
On a tramway that connects several of Jerusalem's neighborhoods from East to West, a mosaic of people from different religious and ethnic backgrounds are brought together.
Bangkok-Bahrain Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
In Thailand half a million women work as prostitutes while men leave the country as low-paid labourers in the Gulf Emirates.
Marco Melani - The Man With The Golden Eye Trailer (2021)
09 December 2021
"The Man With The Golden Eye" tells the extraordinary figure of Marco Melani through a live projection of materials collected in over ten years of research.
News From Home/News From House Trailer (2006)
01 January 2006
Documentary about a house and its politically divided ownership over time.
Promised Land Trailer (2004)
11 April 2004
"Promised Land" tells the story of a group of young unwitting Estonian girls smuggled through Egypt to be auctioned off as prostitutes in Israel, and of their initiation into this trade of flesh, and finally of the accidental freeing of one girl who most fight for her freedom.
Not Gone and Not Forgotten: A Story of Urban Redevelopment and Community Organizing in Los Angeles Trailer (1983)
01 January 1983
UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. "A chronicle of the successful protest efforts of a small Los Angeles community in the Pico-Union district, whose homes were threatened by eviction actions in 1979 to allow the expansion of an auto-supply business"--TV guide, April 27, 1984.
Kedma Trailer (2002)
05 May 2002
In May 1948, shortly before the creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of immigrants from across Europe arrive in Palestine--only to risk arrest by British troops.
Architecture in Israel Trailer (2013)
31 December 2013
What is under discussion is the actual construction of the state of Israel, its history and identity, besides the oedipal theme for an architect-filmmaker.
The Arena of Murder Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
This documentary by Amos Gitai is a personal look at the aftermath of the Rabin assassination.
Shikun Trailer (2024)
06 March 2024
A diverse cross-section of Israeli society converges in a single multi-use building, the Shikun. As people of different languages, origins and generations come together in highly theatrical encounters, they grapple with the current state of affairs.
Wadi Trailer (1981)
02 January 1981
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, live in a state of fragile coexistence with Arabs who have also been expelled from their homes.
Pineapple Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
Documentary about the process canned pineapple takes from cultivation to sale.
Things Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
Drama - This Israeli drama tells the story of three men living in Tel Aviv. They set off to attend a funeral.
War and Peace in Vesoul Trailer (1997)
04 February 1997
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 in the Middle East, their film projects, their cities, their private lives… In Vesoul, the French welcome is rather comical and the questions of war and peace in the Middle East create misunderstandings: through a kind of inverted exoticism, we end up wondering who is really the “stranger” in this story.
Golem: The Petrified Garden Trailer (1993)
01 January 1993
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 collection and the hand of a huge sculpture of a Golem.
Field Diary Trailer (1982)
10 April 1982
The story of various journeys through the West Bank and Gaza Strip occupied territories during the months leading up to Israel's invasion of Lebanon.
House Trailer (1980)
30 January 1980
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 Algerian immigrants in 1956; purchased by a university professor who undertakes its transformation into a patrician villa.
Waves 2 Trailer (1976)
01 January 1976
After of Waves 1 (1972) Amos Gitai made another short film entitled Waves 2, in 1976 and again in Super-8.
