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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 538

Amos Gitai

Filmmaker Amos Gitai speaking at a press conference ahead of the Venice Film Festival screening of his latest film, 'Why War,' on August 31, 2024 (Credit: Giorgio Zucchiatti La Biennale di Venezia - Foto ASAC)
September 4, 2024, 12:10 pm
Director Amos Gitai pushes back against boycott call of ‘Why War’ film at Venice fest
Over 300 artists sign letter asserting that Israeli production complicit in ‘apartheid, occupation and now genocide,’ but screening goes ahead
By Jessica Steinberg
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the state ceremony marking 50 years since the Yom Kippur War at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl, on September 26, 2023 (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)
September 27, 2023, 1:15 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 27: Saudi talks and the PA; Netanyahu talks tachlis with NY Jews
US bureau chief Jacob Magid discusses latest normalization efforts and PM’s conversation with Jewish leaders; social media editor Sarah Tuttle-Singer introduces Hidden Gems
By ToI Staff
From filmmaker Amos Gitai's 2000 film 'Kippur,' featured in Tel Aviv Museum of Art exhibit marking 50 years since the 1973 Yom Kippur War (Courtesy Tel Aviv Museum of Art)
September 24, 2023, 2:54 am
50 years on, filmmaker Amos Gitai remembers Yom Kippur War in museum exhibit
Controversial creator of ‘Kippur,’ ‘Kadosh’ and dozens of other works, who was shot down in battle, draws on difficult memories for ‘Kippur, War Requiem’ at Tel Aviv Museum of Art
By Jessica Steinberg
Amos Gitai (bottom) with Keren Mor (left) and Yuval Sherf, checking takes during filming of 'Jerusalem Light Rail.' The director will be honored at the Solidarity and Human Rights Film December 9-18, 2021 for 40 years of making films about human rights (Courtesy Amos Gitai)
December 2, 2021, 1:42 pm
Festival showcases films striving to make world a better place
The Solidarity and Human Rights Film Festival opens December 9 at Tel Aviv Cinematheque
By Jessica Steinberg
Israeli director Amos Gitai attends a photocall for the film "A Letter to a Friend in Gaza," presented out of competition on September 3, 2018, during the 75th Venice Film Festival, at Venice Lido. (AFP Photo/Alberto Pizzoli)
July 28, 2020, 4:16 pm
Amos Gitai’s ‘Laila in Haifa’ among picks for Venice Film Festival
Drama starring Shia LaBeouf to also premiere in September at prestigious festival, which will be less star-studded this year due to pandemic
By Lindsey Bahr
Israeli director Amos Gitai attends a photocall for the film "A Letter to a Friend in Gaza," presented out of competition on September 3, 2018, during the 75th Venice Film Festival, at Venice Lido. (AFP Photo/Alberto Pizzoli)
May 21, 2020, 7:54 am
Israeli director Amos Gitai calls for ecological rethink after coronavirus
Award-winning filmmaker says that a time of crisis is ‘the moment to try to find some perspective,’ warns ‘greed and advanced capitalism’ are destroying planet
By Alexandra Vardi
Some of the actors from Amos Gitai's newest film, 'A Tramway in Jerusalem,' including Yuval Sherf (third from left) and Yael Abecassis (third from right) in Venice on September 3, 2018 (Courtesy Awakening)
September 4, 2018, 6:34 pm
Amos Gitai movie about Jerusalem light rail premieres in Venice
‘A Tramway in Jerusalem’ and ‘A Letter to a Friend in Gaza’ are introduced to audiences at annual film festival
By Jessica Steinberg
Israeli director Amos Gitai attends a photocall for the film "A Letter to a Friend in Gaza," presented out of competition on September 3, 2018, during the 75th Venice Film Festival, at Venice Lido. (AFP Photo/Alberto Pizzoli)
September 3, 2018, 8:33 pm
Director Amos Gitai accuses government of ‘cozying up to anti-Semites’
At movie premier in Venice, Israeli filmmaker appears to refer to Netanyahu’s friendship with Hungarian leader Orban, says country’s ‘open society’ at risk
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Amos Gitai (bottom) with Keren Mor (left) and Yuval Sherf, checking takes during filming of 'Jerusalem Light Rail.' The director will be honored at the Solidarity and Human Rights Film December 9-18, 2021 for 40 years of making films about human rights (Courtesy Amos Gitai)
January 23, 2018, 2:20 pm
New film takes audiences for a ride on Jerusalem’s light rail
Filmmaker Amos Gitai creates a mosaic of the train’s diverse passengers, as a metaphor for the divided city
By Jessica Steinberg
This file photo taken on March 10, 2016, shows Israeli director Amos Gitai at the opening his exhibition 'Amos Gitai: Chronicle of an assassination foretold' at MAXXI museum in Rome. (AFP PHOTO / TIZIANA FABI)
May 24, 2017, 4:34 pm
At Cannes, director Amos Gitai warns of Israel’s slow ‘suicide’
Leading Israeli filmmaker premieres new film about ‘harassment‘ of peace activists
By Fiachra GIBBONS
Yitzhak Rabin, center, as Chief of IDF General Staff, during the Six Day War, speaking with the commander of the southern front, Yeshayahu Gavish (Courtesy of Israel Defense Force Archive)
From the WebFebruary 4, 2017, 5:14 pm
When towering rivals Rabin and Nasser met for lunch – in Rabin’s own words
New documentary explores how a group of young Israeli and Egyptian officers put down their guns, ate lunch together, Reuters reports
“Mr. Gaga” plays at the New York Film Festival on Jan. 12, 2017. (Gadi Dagon)
January 12, 2017, 11:35 am
5 standouts from the New York Jewish Film Fest
Annual festival started Wednesday, features 2 weeks of flicks ranging from the uniting power of hummus to the last days of Yitzhak Rabin
By Gabe Friedman
Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, left, with United Nations secretary general Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Gad Yaacobi, right, Israel's UN ambassador on Friday, November12, 1993, at Yaacobi's residence in New York. Shimon Sheves, behind Yaacobi, the director of the Prime Minister's office, listens in. (AP Photo/David Karp)
October 25, 2015, 6:24 am
20 years on, Rabin’s right-hand man regrets arguments won, and lost
‘I was right, but in a way, that made me the creator of Rabin’s death,’ says Shimon Sheves, former director-general of the prime minister’s office
By Jenni Frazer
'Rabin, the Last Day,' Amos Gitai's latest movie examining the final moments of Yitzhak Rabin's life, also includes a look at the Shamgar Commission that investigated his assassination (Photo credit: Alon Ron)
September 16, 2015, 2:25 pm
From Gitai’s J’accuse to Schreiber’s hero, ‘chosen’ films in Toronto
At the 40th annual international film festival, a fiery denunciation of Israel’s PM as ‘art,’ a disappointing Jake Gyllenhaal, and an off-beat Israeli documentary
By Jordan Hoffman
September 9, 2015, 3:01 pm
Venice filmmakers stand in silence for Duma victims
Speaking from film festival, ‘Rabin’ producer Amos Gitai says he hopes his movie makes people ‘prepare for the future’
By Jessica Steinberg
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