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  • Carmel

    Movie

    Directed by Amos Gitai • Arthouse • 2009 • Israel, France • Hebrew, French, Arabic with English subtitles
    Starring Jeanne Moreau, Amos Gitai, Rivka Gitai

    “Carmel” is Amos Gitai's deeply personal and resonant meditation on Jewish and Israeli identity. Using both fiction and documentary techniques...

  • Kippur

    Movie

    Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 2000 • Israel, France • Hebrew with English subtitles
    Starring Juliano Mer, Uri Ran Klauzner, Tomer Ruso

    An Official Selection at the Cannes, New York, and Toronto Film Festivals, Amos Gitai's "Kippur" is a gut-wrenching journey through beautiful landscapes ravag...

  • Disengagement

    Movie

    Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 2007 • Israel, France • English, Hebrew, French, Arabic with English subtitles
    Starring Juliette Binoche, Liron Levo, Jeanne Moreau

    Ana (Juliette Binoche) is reunited with her estranged Israeli stepbrother Uli when he travels to France for the death of their fa...

  • Esther

    Movie

    Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 1986 • Austria, Israel, UK • Hebrew with English subtitles
    Starring Simone Benyamin, Mohammed Bakri, Juliano Merr

    Amos Gitai’s debut feature, which draws upon his mother Efratia’s own Biblical scholarship, is filmed as a series of ritualized tableaux amid the rui...

  • Ana Arabia

    Movie

    Directed by Amos Gitai • Arthouse • 2013 • Israel, France • Hebrew with English subtitles
    Starring Yuval Scharf, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Sarah Adler

    Filmed in one sequence shot by acclaimed director Amos Gitai, “Ana Arabia” follows a young journalist who visits a small community of outcasts, Jews and ...

  • Alila

    Movie

    Directed by Amos Gitai • Arthouse • 2004 • Israel, France • Hebrew, English with English subtitles
    Starring Yaël Abecassis, Hana Laszlo, Uri Klauzner

    Amos Gitai's ensemble film examines the lives of a half dozen residents of a run-down Tel-Aviv apartment building. For the apartment dwellers, eve...

  • The Rocket

    Movie

    Directed by Kim Mordaunt • Drama • 2013 • Australia, Laos, Thailand • Lao with English subtitles
    Starring ​Sitthiphon Disamoe, Loungnam Kaosainam, Thep Phongam

    Winner of awards at the Berlin and Tribeca Film Festivals, this blazingly original drama tells the story of 10-year-old Ahlo, who is dec...

  • Free Zone

    Movie

    Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 2005 • Israel, France • English, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish with English subtitles
    Starring Natalie Portman, Hanna Laslo, Hiam Abbass

    Rebecca, played by Natalie Portman, has just broken off her engagement. She gets into a cab driven by Hanna, an Israeli. But Hanna i...

  • Sister

    Movie

    Directed by Ursula Meier • Arthouse • 2012 • Switzerland, France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Léa Seydoux, Kacey Mottet Klein, Martin Compston

    Winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Ursula Meier's film follows a young boy who lives with his older sister (Léa Seydoux) ...

  • Indivisible

    Movie

    Directed by Edoardo De Angelis • Drama • 2018 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
    Starring Angela Fontana, Marianna Fontana, Antonia Truppo

    "Indivisible" is an award-winning Italian drama about the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood. Dasy and Viola are conjoined twin sisters living in the subu...

  • Kadosh

    Movie

    Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 1999 • Israel, France • Hebrew with English subtitles
    Starring Uri Ran Klauzner, Yaël Abecassis, Yoram Hattub

    Amos Gitai’s impassioned feminist polemic selected for the 1999 Cannes Film Festival is set in an ultra-Orthodox enclave of Jerusalem and follows a pious...

  • Winter Sleep

    Movie

    Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan • Drama • 2014 • Turkey • Turkish with English subtitles
    Starring Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbag

    Directed by cinema master Nuri Bilge Ceylan, this enthralling, brilliantly photographed film won the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and was Turke...

  • Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

    Movie

    Directed by Vittorio De Sica • Anthology • 1963 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
    Starring Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni

    Witty and unforgettable, this Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film from master neo-realist filmmaker Vittorio de Sica casts Marcello Mastroianni and...

  • Princess Tam Tam

    Movie

    Directed by Edmond T. Greville • Drama • 1935 • French • French with English subtitles
    Starring Josephine Baker, Albert Préjean, Jean Gallande

    "Princess Tam Tam" is a 1935 French black-and-white film starring Josephine Baker as Alwina, a Tunisian girl who is introduced to Parisian high society a...

  • The Scent of Green Papaya

    Movie

    Directed by Anh Hung Tran • Drama • 1993 • Vietnam, France • Vietnamese with English subtitles
    Starring Nu Yen Khe Tran, Thi Loc Truong, Anh Hoa Nguyen

    An Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Cannes winner ”The Scent of Green Papaya” is set in 1951 Saigon, where 10-year-old Mui...

  • Metropolis

    Movie

    Directed by Fritz Lang • Silent • 1927 • Germany • German with English intertitles
    Starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gustav Froelich, Alfred Abel

    With more than 25 minutes of rediscovered footage, this restoration of “Metropolis” is the definitive edition of Fritz Lang’s influential sci-fi masterpiec...

  • Marius

    Movie

    Directed by Daniel Auteuil • Arthouse • 2014 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Daniel Auteuil, Raphaël Personnaz, Jean-Pierre Darroussin

    Actor and director Daniel Auteuil’s sumptuous adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's classic trilogy following the loves and losses of a Marseille port ...

  • Lovers and Lollipops

    Movie

    Directed by Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin • Drama • 1956 • US • English
    Starring Lori March, Gerald O'Loughlin, Cathy Dunn

    A follow-up to the hugely successful "Little Fugitive", Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin's "Lovers and Lollipops" is the enchanting tale of a seven-year-old girl's reaction to her mom...

  • The Last Laugh

    Movie

    Directed by F. W. Murnau • Silent • 1924 • Germany • German with English intertitles
    Starring Emil Jannings

    One of the crowning achievements of the German expressionist movement, F. W. Murnau’s “The Last Laugh” stars Emil Jannings as an aging doorman whose happiness crumbles when he is relieved ...

  • Laila in Haifa

    Movie

    Directed by Amos Gitai • Arthouse • 2020 • Israel, France • English, Arabic, Hebrew with English subtitles
    Starring Maria Zreik, Khawla Ibraheem, Hana Laslo

    With an ensemble cast of both Israeli and Palestinian actors, “Laila in Haifa” explores the interweaving stories of five women set over one...

  • The Tenth Man

    Movie

    Directed by Daniel Burman • Drama • 2016 • Argentina • Spanish with English subtitles
    Starring Alan Sabbagh, Julieta Zylberberg, Usher Barilka

    Ari, who has built a successful career in New York, thinks he has left his past behind. But his distant father Usher, who runs a Jewish aid foundation in...

  • A Delicate Balance

    Movie

    Directed by Tony Richardson • Theatre • 1976 • US • English
    Starring Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield

    An invasion of friends and family pushes the repressed problems of a complacent marriage to the fore in this exceptional adaptation of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Oscar-winners K...

  • The Iceman Cometh

    Movie

    Directed by John Frankenheimer • Theatre • 1973 • US • English
    Starring Lee Marvin, Fredric March, Robert Ryan

    Considered the definitive film version of Eugene O'Neill's play, this simple tale of a birthday celebration at a saloon takes a devastating look at disillusionment and dashed hopes. Lee...

  • The Homecoming

    Movie

    Directed by Peter Hall • Theatre • 1973 • UK, US • English
    Starring Paul Rogers, Ian Holm, Cyril Cusack

    A professor returns home after a long absence to introduce his wife to his father and two brothers, but the family reunion has unexpected and disturbing consequences. Based on one of Harold Pi...