Amos Gitai
| Amos Gitai | |
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Gitai at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival
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11 October 1950 Haifa, Israel |
| Occupation | Filmmaker, Author |
| Spouse(s) | Rivka Gitai (1980-present) |
| Website | amosgitai |
Amos Gitai (11 October 1950) is an Israeli filmmaker, mainly known for making documentaries and feature films, surrounding the Middle East and Jewish-Arab conflict. His work was presented in several major retrospective in Pompidou Center Paris, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New-York, the Lincoln Center New-York and the British Film Institute London. To date Amos Gitai has created over 90 works of art throughout 38 years. Between 1999 and 2011 seven of his films were entered in the Cannes Film Festival for the Palme d'Or as well as the Venice Film Festival for the Golden Lion award. He has worked with Juliette Binoche, Jeanne Moreau, Natalie Portman, Yael Abecassis, Samuel Fuller, Hanna Schygulla, Annie Lennox, Barbara Hendricks, Lea Seydoux, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Simon et Markus Stockhausen, Henri Alekan, Renato Berta, Nurith Aviv, Eric Gautier and more. Since 2000 he has collaborated with the French filmmaker, Marie-José Sanselme. He received several prestigious prizes, in particular the Leopard of Honor at the Locarno International Film Festival (2008), the Roberto Rossellini prize (2005), the Robert Bresson prize (2013) and the Paradjanov prize (2014).
Gitai was born in Haifa and divides his time today between Paris and Haifa.
Gitai was born to Munio Weinraub (Gitai), an architect formed at the pre-war German Bauhaus art school, and to Efratia Margalit, an intellectual, storyteller and a teacher. He holds a degree in Architecture from the Technion in Haifa and a PhD in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1973, during the Yom Kippur War, Gitai had to interrupt his architecture studies as he was called up to reserve service as part of a helicopter rescue crew. While serving, he shot 8mm footage of the fighting, claiming this served as his entry into the world of film making.
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