“Shikun”, interview with director Amos Gitai

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Israeli director Amos Gitai is back at the Taormina Film Fest after 25 years, with his new work “Shikun“.

At the 70th edition of the festival, directed from this year on by Marco Müller, Amos Gitai is introducing his film, which premiered last February at the Berlinale, to the italian audience.

Conceived and shot in Tel Aviv a while before the events of October 7th, 2024, “Shikun” in hebrew means collective housing as the film is set there, a sort of refugee building giving shelter to anyone asking for help: Israelis, Palestinians, Ukrainians

The inspiration for the film comes from Eugène Ionesco’s play “Rhinoceros“, an anti-totalitarian fable the Romanian author wrote at the end of the 50’s.

Ionesco’s words felt so contemporary to address what’s happening in his country but also in the world that Gitai asked Irene Jacob who, at the time was busy in Paris in a play based on Gitai’s own work, to come back to Tel Aviv and shot the film.

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