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      • Employing both documentary and fictional styles, Gitai uses the camera to reveal the contradictions and ambivalences of history and challenges us to scrutinize these histories anew. With landscape as a pictorial reference, Gitai traverses time and space to posit universal themes of migration, struggle, and alienation.
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  2. Aug 31, 2024 · Israeli director Amos Gitai, who has repeatedly explored the Israeli-Palestinian conflict back home in his films, widens his gaze and offers a kaleidoscopic film essay on war, fuelled by a historic exchange of letters between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud.

  3. For more than twenty years, Amos Gitai has brought complex images of Israeli life and the Jewish Diaspora to the screen. Employing both documentary and fictional styles, Gitai uses the camera to reveal the contradictions and ambivalences of history and challenges us to scrutinize these histories anew.

  4. Dec 22, 2023 · When the Lebanese playwright Wajdi Mouawad invited Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai to stage his documentary trilogy House (1980, 1998, 2005) at the Théâtre national de la Colline in 2023, geopolitical animosities made way for artistic solidarities.

  5. Feb 13, 2007 · For more than three decades, intrepid Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï has devoted himself to surveying the disunities and corrosive antagonisms that perennially plague his homeland and, by extension, perpetuate Arab-Israeli conflict throughout the Middle East.

  6. Sep 8, 2024 · Taking its cue from an exchange of correspondence on the meaning of war between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, Amos Gitai‘s “Why War” constructs out of stock footage and fiction a treatise on the futility of war as a means of resolving differences and the inhumanity of all conflict. The film has been presented Out of Competition at ...

  7. Amos Gitai's work has won numerous awards, including a Leopard d'honneur at Locarno for his body of work (2008), the Roberto Rossellini Prize (2005), the Robert Bresson Prize (2013) and the Paradjanov Prize (2014). He is an Officier des Arts et des Lettres and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.

  8. Jun 12, 2024 · Amos Gitai, a renowned Israeli filmmaker, embarked on his artistic journey following a near-death experience during the Yom Kippur War. Amos' films address complex social and political issues and emphasize the role of art in fostering dialogue.