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Jun 10, 2020 · What follows is a summary of conversations with CED Emeritus Professor Michael Dear, including a contribution from Marie-José Sanselme, a long–time collaborator of Amos Gitai. The conversations were edited by Michael Dear. “You cannot make a progressive film within a reactionary form.”
Rabin, the Last Day is a 2015 Israeli-French docudrama political thriller film directed by Amos Gitai. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival .
Kippur (Hebrew: כיפור) is a 2000 Israeli drama war film directed by Amos Gitai. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Gitai and Marie-Jose Sanselme; based on Gitai's own experiences as a member of a helicopter rescue crew during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Amos Gitai is an artist and an Israeli filmmaker, born 11 October 1950 in Haifa, Israel . Gitai's work was presented in several major retrospectives in Pompidou Center in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Lincoln Center in New York, and the British Film Institute in London.
The faintly defined love triangle between Laila, Gil and Kamal is the closest thing Gitai and Marie Jose Sanselme’s stuffy script has to a center, though it drifts frequently from them to...
Promised Land: Directed by Amos Gitai. With Rosamund Pike, Diana Bespechni, Hanna Schygulla, Anne Parillaud. "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 ...
Amos Gitai's concern for oppressed women goes a long way back in time (Bangkok-Bahrain, Kadosh). Promised Land questions the notion of territoriality (the traffickers speak all kinds of languages: Arab, French, Russian, Hebrew). Gitai depicts Israel as a huge capitalist brothel in the age of globalization.
