Birth of a Golem

Amos Gitai , born 11 October 1950 in Haifa, Israel, is an acclaimed filmmaker in Israel and worldwide, with major retrospectives to his works at Centre Georges Pompidou, MoMA, Lincoln Center New-York, British Film Institute and others, with substantial body of work of more than 40 films, fiction... and documentaries which had been widely distributed. Between 1999 and 2011 seven of his films entered the Cannes Film Festival for the Golden Palm Award, as well as the Venice Film Festival for the Golden Lion award. Throughout the years Gitai collaborated with Juliette Binoche, Jeanne Moreau, Natalie Portman, Yael Abecassis, Samuel Fuller, Barbara Hendricks, Léa Seydoux, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Simon Stockhausen, Markus Stockhausen, Henri Alekan, Renato Berta, Eric Gautier and others. Gitai was born in 1950 in Haifa to Munio Weinraub and Efratia Margalit. His father was an architect of the pre-war Bauhaus movement in Germany. His parents changed the family name to Gitai. Amos holds a degree in architecture from the Technion in Haifa and a PhD in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley.
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