Leave it to Sony Pictures Classics to bring poignant and award-winning foreign animated feature films to North American audiences. The label that recently brought us Satoshi Kon’s Paprika, Michael Arias’ Tekkonkinkreet and Marjane Satrapi’s and Vincent Paronnaud’s Persepolis has picked up Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman’s critically acclaimed animated documentary Waltz With Bashir at the Cannes Film Festival.
A Cannes Official Selection, Waltz with Bashir documents Folman’s quest to recover memories and discover the truth about an Israeli army mission he participated in during the first Lebanon War of the early 1980s. Long-forgotten images begin to resurface as the director interviews old friends and comrades around the world regarding the events. The film was co-produced by Bridgit Folman Films Gang and ITVS.
Folman’s previous efforts include the graduate film Comfortably Numb, the 1996 feature Saint Clara and the TV series Saturdays and Holidays, Chapter of the Week and In Therapy, the Israeli series that served as the model for HBO’s Gabriel Byrne vehicle in the U.S.
