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Kadosh

Kadosh (2000) more movies like this

directed by Amos Gitai
featuring Yaël Abecassis, Yoram Hattab, Meital Barda, Uri Ran Klauzner, Yussef Abu Warda

A dark drama of women living in a society where they are second-class citizens, Kadosh/Sacred begins with Meir, an Orthodox Jew living in the Mea Shearim district of Jerusalem, greeting the day with his morning prayers, which includes the phrase, "Thank you, oh Lord, for not having made me a woman." Meir begins to understand just how poorly ...

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Free Zone

Free Zone (2006) more movies like this

directed by Amos Gitai
featuring Natalie Portman, Hanna Laslo, Hiam Abbass, Carmen Maura, Makram Khoury

A Jewish-American woman still reeling from her breakup with her Spanish-Israeli fiancée hits the road with a middle-aged Israeli woman, who is looking to collect the 30,000-dollar debt owed to her by her husband's former business partner, and a Palestinian woman, who claims to know the elusive moneyman's whereabouts, in this road-trip drama from ...

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Kippur

Kippur (2000) more movies like this

directed by Amos Gitai
featuring Uri Ran Klauzner, Yoram Hattab, Juliano Merr

Filmmaker Amos Gitai was a first-hand witness to the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in which troops from Egypt and Syria chose one of the holiest days of the Jewish calendar to launch a surprise attack on Israel. This film examines the short but bloody conflict through the eyes of a student, Weinraub (Liron Levo). Weinraub and his friend Russo (Tomer Russo) ...

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Devarim

Devarim (1998) more movies like this

directed by Amos Gitai

This Israeli drama is based on Yaakov Shabtai's novel Past Continuous and tells the story of three men living in Tel Aviv. Caesar loves his wife and son; he is devastated that they have separated. Now he leads a miserable life in a run-down apartment shared with the sluggardly Israel, a dead-beat musician. Together the two set off to attend the ...

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Yom Yom

Yom Yom (1998) more movies like this

directed by Amos Gitai
featuring Moshe Ivgi, Hanna Maron, Juliano Merr, Dalit Kahan, Yussef Abu Warda

Amos Gitai directed this Israeli-French family comedy-drama, the second film in a trilogy about contemporary Israeli cities. A Jewish woman, Hanna (Hanna Maron), runs a bakery with her Arab husband Yussef (Yussef Abu Warda), while their son Moshe (Moshe Ivgi) has problems with his wife Didi (Dalit Kahan). With a proposed retail mall in the future, ...

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Kedma

Kedma (2003) more movies like this

directed by Amos Gitai
featuring Andrei Kashker, Helena Yaralova, Yussef Abu Warda, Moni Moshonov, Juliano Merr

Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai directed this historical drama based on a true story of the conflict between Jewish refugees and Palestinians on the eve of the formation of the nation of Israel. On May 7, 1948, a freight ship, the Kedma , arrived on the coast of Palestine, carrying a load of Jewish refugees from Europe who had survived concentration ...

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Alila

Alila (2004) more movies like this

directed by Amos Gitai
featuring Yaël Abecassis, Uri Ran Klauzner, Hanna Laslo, Ronit Elkabetz, Amos Lavie

Directed by Amos Gitai, Alila is based on Yehoshua Kenaz's novel Returning Lost Love and chronicles the trials and tribulations of every day life in Tel Aviv. Most of the film revolves around an apartment block on the working-class borders of Tel Aviv, where the trysts of residents Hezi (Amos Lavie) and Gabi (Yael Abecassis) attract their ...

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Golem: The Petrified Garden

Golem: The Petrified Garden (1993) more movies like this

directed by Amos Gitai
featuring Jerome Koening, Hanna Schygulla, Samuel Fuller, Mascha Itkina

Instead of simply traveling to eastern Siberia to collect a modern art collection willed to him by a forgotten uncle, Daniel (Jerome Koenig), who runs an art gallery in Paris, decides (for reasons which are never explained) to bring a ten-foot long hand along with him. It is perhaps a portion of a huge sculpture of a golem (an artifical being ...

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Golem: Birth of a Golem

Golem: Birth of a Golem (1991)

directed by Amos Gitai

In this exploration of the mythical Golem, former Eurythmics fromtwoman Annie Lennox and director Amos Gitai use the tale of the vengeful clay statue come to life as a parable for the creative process. Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

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Berlin Jerusalem

Berlin Jerusalem (1989) more movies like this

directed by Amos Gitai
featuring Lisa Kreuzer, Markus Stockhausen, Benjamin Levy, Vernon Dobtcheff

This difficult-to-follow arthouse film explores the parallel stories of two very idealistic Zionist women who never met in real life. The story concerns the German poet Elsa Lasker-Schuller and the Russian Mania Schochat. Elsa (Lisa Krezer) lives in 1920's Berlin as Germany is degenerating into the chaos from which Hitler will emerge. Mania (Rivka ...

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Journal de Campagne (1983) more movies like this

directed by Amos Gitai

In spite of difficulties posed by soldiers, officials, and other authorities who tried to stop him from filming, director Amos Gitai stubbornly forged ahead with this documentary on the Israeli occupied areas of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Life in these regions is shown in all its variety, from the Israeli soldiers who mainly support the ...

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September 11 (2003) more movies like this

directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Amos Gitai, Claude Lelouch, Danis Tanovic, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Ken Loach, Mira Nair, Samira Makhmalbaf, Sean Penn, Shohei Imamura, Youssef Chahine

In the aftermath of the tragedies on September 11, 2001, the French film company Studio Canal called upon a group of filmmakers, representing various regions of the world, to address the scope of the situation in however broad or intimate a context as they saw fit. The one guideline they were given was that no one film could exceed 11 minutes, ...

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Promised Land (2004) more movies like this

directed by Amos Gitai
featuring Rosamund Pike, Diana Despechni, Hanna Schygulla, Anne Parillaud, Alla An

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Esther (1985) more movies like this

directed by Amos Gitai
featuring Simona Binyamini, Shmuel Wolf, Zare Vartenian

In this experimental film that deals metaphorically with Arab-Jewish relations in the Middle East, left-leaning director Amos Gitai uses Biblical history to comment on the current situation in Israel and its vicinity. This story deals in part with the Jewess Esther and how she managed to save her people from extermination after she became the wife ...

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Golem, The Spirit of the Exile (1992) more movies like this

directed by Amos Gitai
featuring Hanna Schygulla, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Samuel Fuller, Mireille Perrier

In modern-day Paris, a cabalist known as the Maharal has created a golem, an artificial being constructed of earth and clay, infused with spirit through the recitation of a special formula. The legendary being he brings to life is known in this instance as "The Spirit of Exile," and the magician's goal in creating her was to create a protector for ...

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