FILM DIRECTOR

Amos Gitai

1950 - Today

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Amos Gitai is an artist and an Israeli filmmaker, born 11 October 1950 in Haifa, Israel. Gitai's work was presented in several major retrospectives in Pompidou Center in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Lincoln Center in New York, and the British Film Institute in London. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amos Gitai has received more than 147,439 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Amos Gitai is the 204th most popular film director (up from 557th in 2019), the 127th most popular biography from Israel (up from 200th in 2019) and the most popular Israeli Film Director.

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  • 22

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  • 12.02

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  • 1.30

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Amos Gitai ranks 204 out of 2,041. Before him are Lev Kuleshov, Norman Jewison, John G. Avildsen, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Vincente Minnelli, and Mike Newell. After him are Douglas Sirk, Claude Lanzmann, Dariush Mehrjui, Danny Boyle, Lina Wertmüller, and Joe D'Amato.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Amos Gitai ranks 62. Before him are Lakshmi Mittal, Alan Silvestri, Mark Spitz, Cybill Shepherd, Bjarne Stroustrup, and Marianne Bachmeier. After him are Sahle-Work Zewde, John Candy, David Graf, Chantal Akerman, Chen Shui-bian, and Helen Clark.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Amos Gitai ranks 127 out of 466. Before him are Aristobulus II (-100), Yochanan Vollach (1945), Al-Tabarani (873), Yoav Galant (1958), Al-Maqdisi (945), and Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia (1167). After him are Al-Afdal Shahanshah (1066), Ali Hassan Salameh (1940), Yigael Yadin (1917), Yuval Noah Harari (1976), Mariam Baouardy (1846), and Yael Dayan (1939).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Israel

Among film directors born in Israel, Amos Gitai ranks 1. After him are Assi Dayan (1945), Menahem Golan (1929), Ralph Bakshi (1938), Avi Arad (1948), Ari Folman (1962), Elia Suleiman (1960), Hany Abu-Assad (1961), Samuel Maoz (1962), Oren Peli (1970), and Etan Cohen (1974).

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Filmography

To Each His Own Cinema
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Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
Oct 31o 20076.5 / 10
11'09''01 - September 11
Director
Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length – that offer differing perspectives on the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Sep 4o 20026.5 / 10
Free Zone
Director
Rebecca, an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off her engagement. She gets into a cab driven by Hanna, an Israeli. But Hanna is on her way to Jordan, to the Free Zone, to pick up a large sum of money.
Apr 18o 20055.58 / 10