Waltz with Bashir
Ari Folman
An animated autobiographical documentary on the 1982 Lebanese war, Vals im Bashir (Waltz with Bashir) shows a former Israeli soldier, the hero (and director), searching for memories. He regularly dreams of the Sabra and Chatila massacre, no longer knowing if it was real or not, and interviewing people who lived through it...
Avec les voix de : Ari Folman, Ronny Dayag, Ron Ben-Yishai, Dror Harazi, Yehezkel Lazarov, Miki Leon, Ori Sivan, Zahava Solomon, Shmuel Frenkel
Screenplay : Ari Folman
Editing : Nili Feller
Music : Max Richter
Direction artistique : David Polonsky
Animation : Yoni Goodman, Tal Gadon, Gali Edelbaum
Screenplay : Ari Folman
Editing : Nili Feller
Music : Max Richter
Direction artistique : David Polonsky
Animation : Yoni Goodman, Tal Gadon, Gali Edelbaum
Production : Bridgit Folman Film Gang, Les Films d'Ici, Razor Film Produktion
Distribution: Le Pacte
Distribution: Le Pacte
Between nightmares and witnesses, this film explores memory and collective responsibility. "The idea of the film had gnawed at me for several years, but the filming real-life images wasn't right" (Ari Folman). Folman uses an animated documentary for his search for memories. "This form gave me a great deal of freedom to evoke reality and also to explore the subconscious; a waking dream, fear and even war, the most unreal thing the brain can imagine" (Ari Folman). Although certain key elements in Folman's life have been completely erased, the aim of the exercise is to search for them 20 years on. "The search for traumatic memories buried deep in memories is a form of therapy" (Ari Folman).