互望心中的國界－阿默斯吉泰導演專題

Mohammed, a militant, young Palestinian worker from the Occupied Territories, accidentally loses his mandatory Id card in Tel Aviv. His compliant, older friend Abu Samir understands his plight, and invites him to spend the night in a basement air raid shelter near the construction site where they both work. The long night holds many surprises, and by the next morning neither man will be the same.

"The Dupes" traces the destinies of three different men brought together by their dispossession, their despair and their hope for a better future. The protagonists are Palestinian refugees who are trying to make their way across the border into KUWAIT, the "Promised Land," concealed in the steel tank of a truck. Each one believes he can make a new life for himself, but as the film title suggests, their flight is no solution.

On November 4, 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak RABIN was assassinated after a peace rally in Tel Aviv. "Arena of Murder", the first film to be made on the subject, analyses the aftermath of RABIN's death. GITAI shows us a nation in mourning, from Haifa to Gaza to Tel Aviv. ...Whether it is Leah RABIN talking about imminent changes in Israel, a drive through the Gaza strip at night, Yigal AMIR reenacting the assassination on television, or pop icon Aviv GEFEN singing at a concert, each image is fraught with political meaning.

Amos GITAI first documented life in Wadi Rushmia, a region on the outskirts of Haifa, twenty years ago. The three interlocking films depicting a group of Arabs and Israelis who nurture a fragile culture of coexistence over a span of twenty years, we see the pain of displaced Romanian Jews, and of Palestinians forced to live in shambles. But we also see friendships and even love affairs across the social boundaries, as all these people strive in one way or another to establish roots within a constantly changing landscape.

One of Amos Gitai's first films, House, a documentary he made for Israeli television in 1978, was banned. 20 years later, Gitai returned to the scene of that documetary to make "A House in Jerusalem". Through interviews with current occupants, former occupants, neighbors, and passersby, he manages to capture, not just the specific nature of living in such a turbulent time, in a disputed place, but a larger vision of the city and its place in the world.