Amos Gitaï

Amos Gitaï was born in Haifa in Israel, in 1950. Following in the footsteps of his father, he studied architecture, until the Yom Kippur War brought his studies to a halt. Over his helicopter missions, he began to use a small Super-8 camera. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he produced several documentaries, including ‘House’ and ‘Field Diary’. It’s also during the same period that he sought exile in France and began to produce fiction films such as ‘Esther’ and ‘Berlin-Jerusalem’. Back in Israel in the early 1990s, he produced several fiction films and documentaries that marked his return to his homeland, ‘Devarim’, ‘Kippur’, ‘Alila’, et Today, he lives both in Haifa and in Paris, but he works the world over. In around forty films, Amos Gitaï has produced an extraordinarily varied repertoire in which he explores the history of the Middle East and his own biography, via the recurrent themes of exile and utopia.