Amos Gitai

Amos Gitai (Hebrew עמוס גיתאי; born October 11, 1950 in Haifa, originally Amos Weinraub ) is an Israeli film director and screenwriter.

Life

Gitai's father is the Bauhaus architect Munio Gitai Weinraub ( 1909-1970 ). Gitai studied from 1971 to 1975 architecture at the Technion in Haifa, and from 1976 at the University of Southern California in Berkeley; In 1986 he received his doctorate in this subject. First films were 1972. 1973 he took part as a soldier in the Yom Kippur War. From 1977 he worked for Israeli TV. Two of his films were not aired for alleged pro-Palestinian stance, he was attacked and moved to Paris in 1982. Since 1993 he has been living in Israel.

His work includes more than 40 films. Free Zone in 2005 was honored at the Cannes Film Festival.

Filmography (selection)

Movies

Documentary

Appreciation

• The Festival of Jewish Culture in the Rhineland were the trilogy House in Cologne, Aachen, Dusseldorf, Wuppertal and Bonn in March 2007.
• Amos Gitai in 2008 at the 61st International Film Festival of Locarno awarded the Leopard of Honour.

Exhibitions, performances

• Correspondence, Efrati Gitai - Letters, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel, 2011
• Traces - Muonio Gitai - Weinraub, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel, 2011
• Lullaby for my father, a video presentation in Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk, Israel, 2010
• The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness, ( with Jeanne Moreau ), Festival d' Avignon, France, 2009
• Traces - Evento, Bordeaux, 2009
• Muonio Weinraub / Amos Gitai - Architecture and Film in Israel, Pinakothek der Moderne, Museum of Architecture, Munich, 2008-2009
• Muonio Weinraub / Amos Gitai - Architecture and Film in Israel, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2008-2009
• Amos Gitai: Non- Fiction, MoMA ( Museum of Modern Art ) New York, 2008
• Exhibition in memory of his father Munia Gitai - Weinraub - Amos Gitai, Olivier Cinqualbre and Lionel Richard, Centre Pompidou, Paris 2006
• Public Housing - long video presentation screens, Ein Harod Museum, Herzliya Museum, Saitama Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan, 2000
• Open Shen Zen - Performance, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel - Aviv 1998
• Exhibition in memory to his father - Muonio Gitai - Weinraub, Jerusalem Museum, Israel, 1994