ProfileActivities : Associate producer, Director, Scriptwriter, Author of original work, Producer, Actor, Producer, ???personne.activitefilm.participants (masculin)???
CompaniesAgav Hafakot : Producer
Latest filmsDésengagement(2007), from Amos Gitaï
(2007), from Théo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine, Chen Kaige, Michaël Cimino, Ethan Coen, Joël Coen, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Manoel de Oliveira, Raymond Depardon, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitaï, Hsiao Hsien Hou, Aki Kaurismäki, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Nanni Moretti, Roman Polanski, Raoul Ruiz, Walter Salles, Elia Suleiman, Tsaï Ming-Liang, Gus Van Sant, Lars Von Trier, Wim Wenders, Wong Kar Wai, Zhang Yimou
One day, you'll understand(2007), from Amos Gitaï
News From Home/ News From House(2006), from Amos Gitaï
Free Zone(2005), from Amos Gitaï
Promised Land Hotel(2004), from Amos Gitaï
Je t'aime...moi non plus(2004), from Maria De Medeiros
Alila(2003), from Amos Gitaï
Kedma(2002), from Amos Gitaï
11'09''01(2002), from Youssef Chahine, Amos Gitaï, Shohei Imamura, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Claude Lelouch, Samira Makhmalbaf, Mira Nair, Idrissa Ouédraogo, Sean Penn, Danis Tanovic, Ken Loach
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BiographyAmos Gitaï was born in Haifa. After studying architecture, he joined the Israelian Army and filmed combat during the 1973 Yom Kippur War with a Super 8 camera. The documentaries he directed for Israeli television from 1977 onwards were often controversial and two of them were censured. He decided to leave Israel for Paris where he continued to treat the themes of exile and emigration. After devoting himself exclusively to theater direction in 1992 and 1993, he returned to Israel where he made a series of films about people caught up in events in Israeli history. He pursued his investigation of contemporary Israeli issues as depicted through the prism of three radically different cities: "Zihron Devarim" (1995) set in Tel-Aviv, "Yom Yom" (1998) in Haifa and "Kadosh" (1999) in Jerusalem.
His new film, "Kippur," was presented in official competition at the 2000 Cannes International Film Festival, just as "Kadosh" had been in 1999.