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.

West Of The Jordan River

2017

English

6.3

71%

Amos Gitai Director

Bill Clinton as Self

Yitzhak Rabin as Self

Amos Gitai as Self

Tzipi Hotovely as Self

Amos Gitai returns to the occupied territories for the first time since his 1982 documentary FIELD DIARY. WEST OF THE JORDAN RIVER describes the efforts of citizens, Israelis and Palestinians, who are trying to overcome the consequences of occupation. Gitai's film shows the human ties woven by the military, human rights activists, journalists, mourning mothers and even Jewish settlers. Faced with the failure of politics to solve the occupation issue, these men and women rise and act in the name of their civic consciousness. This human energy is a proposal for long overdue change.

Rabin, the Last Day

2015

Hebrew

6.1

68%

Amos Gitai Director

Amnon Wolf as

Mali Levi as Journalist

Tomer Sisley as Rabin's Driver

Liron Levo as Soldier

Itzhak Rabin's murder ended all efforts of peace, and with him the whole left wing of Israel died. The movie shows the last of his days as prime minister, and what led to his murder.

Kadosh

1999

Hebrew

6.9

♡ 3

Comedy

Drama

Amos Gitai Director

Shireen Kadivar as Lexa

Amos Gitai as Man in the bar

Yussuf Abu-Warda as Rav Shimon

Yaël Abecassis as Rivka

The year 2000 approaches in Jerusalem's Orthodox Mea Shearim quarter, where the women work, keep house, and have children so the men can study the Torah and the Talmud. Rivka is happily and passionately married to Meir, but they remain childless. The yeshiva's rabbi, who is Meir's father, wants Meir to divorce Rivka: "a barren woman is no woman." Rivka's sister, Malka, is in love with Yakov, a Jew shunned by the yeshiva as too secular. The rabbi arranges Malka's marriage to Yossef, whose agitation when fulfilling religious duties approaches the grotesque. Can the sisters sort out their hearts' desires within this patriarchal world? If not, have they any other options?

Golem, the Spirit of the Exile

1992

French

5.4

♡ 1

Drama

Amos Gitai Director

Bernard Eisenschitz as Daniel

Samuel Fuller as Elimelek

Bernardo Bertolucci as Le Maître de la Cour

Hanna Schygulla as L'Esprit de l'Exil

An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film tells the story of a woman (similar to the biblical Ruth) and her sisters, who are forced into exile after the death of their husbands. It is set in 1990s Paris, where the director was living in self-imposed exile following the ban on his 1982 documentary in Israel. The recurring theme of the film is migrations and unrooting, like the legendary Golem.

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