Waltz With Bashir
Waltz with Bashir is a critically-acclaimed 2008 animated film directed by Ari Folman. It took four years to complete and is an international co-production between Israel, Germany and France. The film deals with the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre.The film belongs to a rare genre called the "animated documentary". It entered the competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, and received wide critical acclaim at its premiere, however lost in competition for the prizes despite predictions made during the festival week. The Guardian called it "an extraordinary, harrowing, provocative picture". The film won six awards of the Israeli Film Academy, including Best Picture. The film was featured in the 46th New York Film Festival, where it also had its US premiere on October 2nd, 2008. The film has been sent as an entry for Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards.
Plot
In 1982 Folman was a 19 year old infantry soldier in the Israel Defense Forces. In 2006 he meets with a friend from the army service period, who tells him of the nightmares connected to his experiences from the 1982 Lebanon War. Folman is surprised to find out that he does not remember a thing from the same period. Later that night he has a vision from the night of the Sabra and Shatila massacre the reality of which he is unable to tell. In his memory he and his soldier friends are bathing at night by the seaside in Beirut to the light of flares descending over the city. Folman rushes off to meet another friend from his army service, who advises him to discuss it with other people who were in Beirut at the same time to understand what happened there and to relive his own memory. The film follows Folman in his conversations with friends, a psychologist and the reporter Ron Ben-Yishai who was in Beirut at the same time.
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