For more than twenty years, Amos Gitai has brought complex images of Israeli life and the Jewish Diaspora to the screen. Employing both documentary and fictional styles, Gitai uses the camera to reveal the contradictions and ambivalences of history and challenges us to scrutinize these histories anew. With landscape as a pictorial reference, Gitai traverses time and space to posit universal themes of migration, struggle, and alienation. In 1973, during the Yom Kippur War, a Red Cross helicopter in which Gitai was traveling was shot down by Syrian forces (his latest film, Kippur, tackles this subject). Following this experience, he began using his camera as a means of recording and questioning the historical and political events around him. Both his documentaries and his dramatic films are brutally honest in their presentation of political conflict, personal plight, and the search for meaning. Our tribute to Amos Gitai includes presentations of two of his trilogy series—The Diaspora Trilogy (Esther, Berlin–Jerusalem, Golem– The Spirit Of Exile) and The City Trilogy (Devarim, Day After Day, Kadosh)—as well as examples of his powerfully original documentary work.