BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Amos Gitai Film Festival Part 2: Rabin The Last Day Screening and Panel Discussion X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260807T192155Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51340890586521 DTSTART:20260128T010000Z DTEND:20260128T050000Z DESCRIPTION:The second of two screenings\, The Stanford University Librarie s are pleased to host Amos Gitai's "powerful\, political\, and provocative \," Rabin The Last Day (2015) on Tuesday\, January 27\, 2026 in the Hauck Auditorium\, Traitel Building. There will be a reception and a conversatio n with filmmaker Amos Gitai following the screening. \n\nPanelists\n\nAmos Gitai\, filmmaker and artistRobert Alter\, Professor in the Graduate Scho ol and Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at UC Berke leyThis event is free and open to the public\, but registration is require d to attend.\n\nSee the first screening of the Amos Gitai Film Festival fe aturing the groundbreaking film House (1980) on Thursday\, January 22\, 20 26 in Hauck Auditorium\, Traitel Building. More details on the event and r egistration.\n\nFilm Synopsis\n\nRabin The Last Day\n\nOn the evening of S aturday\, November 4\, 1995\, Israeli Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner Yitzhak Rabin is shot down with three bullets at the end of a huge rally for peace and against violence in the center of Tel Aviv. His kille r\, apprehended at the scene\, turns out to be a twenty-five-year-old stud ent and observant Jew.\n\nThis feature film shot twenty years after Yitzha k Rabin’s assassination sheds light what made this tragic deed possible: A culture of hate fueled by hysterical rhetoric\, paranoia\, and politica l intrigue. The extremist rabbis who condemned Rabin by invoking an obscur e religious ruling. The prominent rightwing politicians who joined in a ca mpaign of incitement against Rabin. The militant Israeli settlers for whom peace meant betrayal. And the security agents who saw what was coming and failed to prevent it.\n\nAbout the Filmmaker\n\nAMOS GITAI is an artist a nd filmmaker. He was born in Haifa\, Israel\, in 1950 to Munio Weinraub\, an architect trained at the Bauhaus\, and Efratia Margalit\, an intellectu al and teacher. He holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Ca lifornia\, Berkeley.\n\nInternationally known for his documentaries and fe ature films about the Middle East\, the Arab Israeli conflict\, and person al and collective memory\, Gitai was wounded during the Yom Kippur War in 1973\, when a medical evacuation helicopter in which he was travelling was hit by a Syrian missile. He has drawn on biographical\, familial and gene rational themes throughout his career\, as well as the trauma of war and t he celebration of life in the face of adversity.\n\nTo date\, Gitai has cr eated over ninety films\, spanning a wide variety of formats including fea ture-length and short films\, fiction and documentaries\, experimental wor ks\, television productions\, and also installations or theater plays. His work has been presented in several major retrospectives around the world. \n\nThe Amos Gitai Archive at Stanford\n\nFor the past nine years\, Stanfo rd University Libraries has been steadily collecting the archives of Amos Gitai’s work\, both documentary and fiction\, including the House docume ntary trilogy: House (1980)\, A House in Jerusalem (1998)\, News from Home / News from House (2005)\; the border trilogy: Promised Land (Terre promi se) (2004)\, Free Zone (2005)\, Disengagement (2007)\; and two films cente red on the Holocaust : One Day You’ll Understand (Plus tard tu comprendr as) (2008) and Tsili (2014)\, both adaptations of literary works. More rec ently\, the collection was expanded to include Gitai’s theater adaptatio n of the House trilogy.\n\nSpanning more than forty years of work and repr esenting ten and a half terabytes of data\, this collection offers excepti onal access to the creative process of a world-renowned artist—one who f eels at home in the fields of cinema\, architecture\, theater\, and art.\n \nYou can view some of the Gitai Archive on display in the current Gitai e xhibit in the Cecil H. Green Library on campus\, available for viewing unt il February 15\, 2026.\n\nAmos Gitai Publications Available for Purchase\n \nStanford University Libraries are pleased to publish two books about Amo s Gitai’s decades-spanning oeuvre grappling with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the place of the arts in engaging with that conflict. Both b ooks are available for pre-order for pickup at the event and will also be available for purchase at the events. \n\nYitzhak Rabin: Chronicle of an A ssassination by Amos Gitai. To place your order for pickup at either event \, please follow this link.\n\nAmos Gitai and the Challenge of Archives\, edited by Amos Gitai and Jean-Michel Frodon. To place your order for picku p at either event\, please follow this link.\n\nYou can also order both bo oks together here for pickup at the event\n\nQuestions? Please contact aki m6@stanford.edu. GEO:37.427563;-122.167691 LOCATION:Traitel Building\, Hauck Auditorium SUMMARY:Amos Gitai Film Festival Part 2: Rabin The Last Day Screening and P anel Discussion URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/amos-gitai-film-festival-pa rt-2-rabin-the-last-day-screening-and-panel-discussion CATEGORIES:Film/Screening END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR