Waltz with Bashir Ready for FFS 2008
One of the films that received most attention during this year's festival in Cannes was the Israeli animated documentary Waltz with Bashir. The original and stunning picture will be screened during Films from the South 2008. With visual playfulness a story too painful to remember is told. Waltz with Bashir begins when a former Israeli soldier asks himself why he don't have any memories from the Sabre and Shatila-massakeren in Lebanon in 1982, where thousands of Palestinian men, women and children were slaughtered in a few hours. This is the starting point for an investigation of his own history. Through conversations with former colleagues and other eye witesess, the oppressed images gradually reappears.Waltz with Bashir is something as rare as an animated documentary. Director Ari Folman made his first attempt at such an experiment in 2004 with the TV series The Material that Love is Made of, and the experiences gave him courage to move forward. In Waltz with Bashir fantasy images visulize actual interviews , and the unique expression captures the soldiers' experience of the war as something that does not really affect them himself, a game they witness from the outside.
Waltz with Bashir was nominated for The Palm d'Ore in Cannes and has astonished and impressed critics and audiences. It is with great pride Films from the South present the film to our audience this October.
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