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Waltz with Bashir Series: 46th New York Film Festival [Sept. 26 – Oct. 12, 2008] Director: Ari Folman, Country: Israel/Germany/France, Release: 2008, Runtime: 90 Intrigued by the recurring nightmare of a friend who’s chased in his dream by the ghosts of the dogs he shot in Lebanon during the ’82 war, director Ari Folman comes to realize how much he has suppressed of his memories as a soldier. Interviewing friends who served with him, Folman’s memories of the conflict gradually begin to emerge — often in unexpected ways. One of the boldest films in recent memory, Waltz with Bashir can be described as an anime documentary, an ingenious and provocative blending of animated film techniques with sharp-edged, often unsettling personal testimony. The animation is used by Folman to illuminate what might be called his subjects’ historical imagination — that place in our minds in which actual lived experience combines with fears, fantasies and justifications. Many films have shown us that war is hell. Waltz with Bashir reveals the mental infernos that can continue long after the guns have stopped firing. A Sony Pictures Classics Release. Preceded by I Don’t Feel Like Dancing: The cruel effects of war sometimes come in unforeseen guises. Joachim Dollhopf & Evi Goldbrunner, Germany, 2008; 7m Ari Folman b. 1962, Haifa, Israel 2001 Made in Israel 1996 Saint Clara 1991 Comfortably Numb

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