![]() ![]() Ari Folman takes viewers on a journey that explores questions of personal and national responsibility, pointing to the terrible price of war from its immediate and obvious victims. A recollection of the 19-year-old director's longing for life when he was sent to war, its ongoing horrors and influences on him and his comrades who fought there, artistically capturing the play between fact and fantasy, simply because it is the elusive way of human hunger to survive. Through a series of meetings and conversations with friends, brother-in-arms, psychotherapist and military journalist, the film depicts the inevitable clash that signals the end of youth. More than 20 years have passed since the Lebanon War, which broke out in the summer of 1982, until Ari Folman embarks on a journey designed to interpret his flashback nightmarish dreams and try, perhaps, to bridge the gaps in his memory of those days. The film confronts the fine line that separates documentary and feature film, and the blurred demarcation that connects and separates the memories that make us who we are, and those memories we choose to repress which also make us who we are. ![]() ![]() Ari Folman's animated masterpiece, using spectacular graphic realization, is a collaboration with illustrator David Polonsky and animation director Yoni Goodman. Award-winning, acclaimed, and controversial, "Waltz with Bashir" is one of the films that has left a unique and unusual mark on Israeli cinema, changing it beyond recognition. ![]()
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