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Amos Gitai

Amos Gitai is a director, screenwriter and producer who is one of Israel’s most prolific, highly-esteemed, and globally successful filmmakers. As such, his films have been featured at the world’s most prestigious festivals including Venice and Cannes. In his youth, Gitai studied architecture, however his academic track came to an abrupt halt when the Yom Kippur War broke out and he was called in for reserve duty. During the war, Gitai was documenting the events with a Super 8mm camera he had brought along with him however, at one point he sustained an injury, after which he decided not to return to architecture and instead, pursue a career in filmmaking.
Gitai took his first filmmaking steps as a documentary film director. In House (1980), his directorial debut, one can already recognise all the prominent themes and motifs that would underscore his body of work in the years ahead: stylistically, the film features lengthy one shots and heavy architectural influences whilst thematically, it is set around a house that was abandoned by its original occupant, an Arab GP during the 1948 War of Independence and has since been taken over by Jewish residents. And whilst the film was banned by its own commissioning body, Israel’s public broadcaster, Channel One, it nonetheless enjoyed tremendous international success: this kind of dissonance would follow Gitai throughout his career which saw him almost unanimously lauded and embraced around the world save for Israel, where his work would usually be frowned upon if not altogether snubbed.
In his films, Gitai has been known to mix documentary and fiction. His 1986 film, Esther was featured at the Cannes Film Festival’s International Critics’ Week and also won Best Feature Film at the Torino International Film Festival of Young Cinema. His film, Berlin–Jerusalem (1989) won the Venice Film Festival’s Filmcritica ‘Bastone Bianco’ award. Yom Yom (1998) went on to win a Wolgin Prize for Best Film and Best Screenplay at the Jerusalem Film Festival. Kadosh (1999), Kippur (2000), Kedma (2002), and Free Zone (2005) all made the Cannes Film Festival’s official selection with Kippur even winning that year’s François Chalais Award for Best Director.
Gitai’s film, Alila (2003) made the Venice Film Festival’s official selection whilst the following year’s Promised Land (2004) took home the festival’s Cinema for Peace (‘CinemAvvenire’) award. Ana Arabia (2013) also made the Venice Film Festival’s official selection where it won a Green Drop Award and a SIGNIS Award – Honourable Mention. Ana Arabia also took home the Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay awards at the Haifa International Film Festival which Gitai shared with screenwriter, Marie-Jose Sanselme. His 2015 film Rabin, the Last Day also made that year’s Venice Film Festival’s official selection and earned a Special Jury Award at the Seville European Film Festival. Highlights of Gitai’s other films include Field Diary (1982) and Things (1995).
Alongside his cinematic body of work, Gitai has also showcased his work at many museum exhibitions and art installations both in Israel and around the world.

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