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Waltz with Bashir (Hebrew: ואלס עם באשיר, translit. Vals Im Bashir) is a 2008 Israeli adult animated war docudrama film written, produced, and directed by Ari Folman. It depicts Folman's search for lost memories of his experience as a soldier during the 1982 Lebanon War and the Sabra and Shatila massacre.
Waltz with Bashir: Directed by Ari Folman. With Ari Folman, Ori Sivan, Ronny Dayag, Shmuel Frenkel. An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
- Ari Folman
- 2 min
'Waltz with Bashir': The Fallibility Yet Persistence of Memory. By Beige Adams. Israeli director Ari Folman can't remember the time he spent as a 20-year-old IDF soldier during Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982.
Jan 21, 2009 · ‘Waltz with Bashir” is a devastating animated film that tries to reconstruct how and why thousands of innocent civilians were massacred because those with the power to stop them took no action. Why they did not act is hard to say.
Waltz with Bashir is a slow, gradual, painful resurrection of repressed memories and images. Slowly the fog clears and Ari’s ghosts of the past take a shape. Only the mass murder in Sabra and Shatila remains a blank space until the end of the film.
Dec 18, 2008 · From the opening scene, in which a pack of wild, vicious dogs rampage through a city street, it’s quite clear that Waltz with Bashir isn’t a typical animated feature. First shot as a documentary with three DVCAMs, and then painstakingly transformed into animation, Waltz with Bashir also defies easy categorization as an animated feature.
“Waltz with Bashir” is a powerful and emotionally charged animated documentary that follows the journey of Ari Folman, an Israeli filmmaker, as he attempts to recover his lost memories from his time as a soldier during the 1982 Lebanon War.
