Amos Gitai refuses to demonize the Palestinians or do a PR job for Israelis. His films, both fictional and documentary, are about ambiguity, complexity and compromise on a domestic level. And he still believes that co-existence must be made to happen.

Amos Gitai was born in Haifa in 1950, the son of a Bauhaus architect from Berlin, Munio Weinraub Gitai, who had worked with Mies van der Rohe and Wassily Kandinsky. Amos Gitai also studied to be an architect; and, although he didn't go to film school, he began to shoot short documentaries. He was called up during the 1973 Yom Kippur war, took part in helicopter rescue missions and used....