A Letter to a Friend in Gaza

director: Amos Gitai

original title: A Letter to a Friend in Gaza

country: Israel

year: 2018

running time: 34 min.

synopsis

A film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict whose author shows uncompromising disapproval of the Gaza blockade, trying to stir responsibility in Israelis for their actions. As his basic tool, he uses readings of thematic stories and poems by Albert Camus, Mahmoud Darwish, Yizhar Smilansky and others.

biography

Amos Gitai (1950) made his debut film in 1972. He focuses on Israeli-Arab conflicts and his works have been presented at many festivals. Last year’s Ji.hlava IDFF screened his doc West of the River Jordan.

more about film

director:	Amos Gitai
producer:	Shuki Friedman, Laurent Truchot
photography:	Oded Kirma
editing:	Yuval Orr
music:	Alex Claude

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