• Waltz With Bashir (2008)

    Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman wrote, directed and stars in this autobiographical animated film. As a 19-year-old infantry soldier in the 1982 war with Lebanon, Folman witnessed the Sabra and Shatila massacre, but realizes that he has no memory of the event. In 2006, he seeks out others who were in Beirut at the time to discuss their memories, including a psychologist specializing in post-traumatic stress disorders and the first journalist to cover the massacre.

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Waltz With Bashir
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Release Date: December 25th, 2008

DVD Release Date: June 23rd, 2009

R |1 hr 30 min

Plot Summary

Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman wrote, directed and stars in this autobiographical animated film. As a 19-year-old infantry soldier in the 1982 war with Lebanon, Folman witnessed the Sabra and Shatila massacre, but realizes that he has no memory of the event. In 2006, he seeks out others who were in Beirut at the time to discuss their memories, including a psychologist specializing in post-traumatic stress disorders and the first journalist to cover the massacre.

Cast: Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ari Folman, Dror Harazi, Yehezkel Lazarov, Mickey Leon

Director: Ari Folman

Genres: Drama , War , Animated , Documentary , Biography

Production Co: Israel Film Fund, Télévision Suisse-Romande (TSR), Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), Razor Film Produktion GmbH, SBS, Les Films d'Ici, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Arte France

Keywords: 1980s , Transformation , Pursuit , Growing up , Soldier , Creative , 2000s ,

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Ratings & Reviews

  • 60
    The Hollywood Reporter

    The chosen style of animation leads to a distracting choppiness that renders the movements, gestures and facial expressions of the interviewees unconvincing. The other problem is that, memory naturally being something that returns in fits and starts, the film is rarely able to sustain any consistent narrative thrust. show more

  • 100
    Carrie RickeyPhiladelphia Inquirer

    This psycho-thriller, a Golden Globe winner and presumptive favorite for the foreign-film Oscar, itself is revelatory. show more

  • 100
    Joe MorgensternWall Street Journal

    An absolute stunner, a feature-length animated documentary, from Israel, in which the force of moving drawings amplifies eerily powerful accounts of war, shaky remembrance and rock-solid repression. show more

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Awards

Nominated Foreign Language Film
Oscars Academy Awards (2008)
Winner Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language
Golden Globes (2009)
Nominated Film Not in the English Language
British Academy of Film & Television Arts (2009)
Nominated Animated Film
British Academy of Film & Television Arts (2009)