Amos Gitai

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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:A former architecture student who turned to filmmaking following a harrowing near-death experience, Amos Gitai entered the world of film as a documentarian and gradually gravitated toward more fictional celluloid subjects. Gitai's sometimes controversial works often strive to make sense of the endless cycle of violence in the Middle East, and his acute sense of social conscience often bleeds through even into his fictional works.

Gitai was born just two years after the state of Israel was established; his father was a classically trained architect and his mother the daughter of Zionist pioneers. After mandatory military service, the future director attempted to follow in his father's footsteps by studying architecture at Haifa's Technion Institute. It wasn't long before he ventured stateside to study at the University of California-Berkley. Gitai's education was interrupted with the breakout of the... Full Biography

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Amos Gitai and Marco Muller at the Festival premiere in Venice Lido on August 31, 2005
Amos Gitai at the Festival premiere in Venice Lido on August 31, 2005
Amos Gitai at the Festival premiere in Venice Lido on August 31, 2005
Edgar Reitz, Christine Vachon, Emiliana Torrini, Amos Gitai, Claire Denis, Acheng and Dante Ferretti...
Amos Gitai and Marco Muller at the Festival premiere in Venice Lido on August 31, 2005
Amos Gitai at the Festival premiere in Venice Lido on August 31, 2005
Amos Gitai, Director
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