Waltz with Bashir (2008)

Highly Recommended

Israel/France/Germany/USA/Belgium/Australia/Switzerland/Finland

Animated Feature Documentary

Original Title: Vals Im Bashir

Writer/Director: Ari Folman

Animators: Gali Edelbaum, Tal Gadon

Composer: Max Richter

Featuring: Ari Folman, Miki Leon, Ori Sivan, Yehezkel Lazarov, Ronny Dayag, Shmuel Frenkel, Zahava Solomon, Ron Ben-Yishai, Dror Harazi

A friend’s recurring dream conjures up an enigmatic image from the night of The Sabra and Shatila Massacre in the mind of film-maker Folman, which inspires him to seek to unlock other seemingly lost memories of his time fighting in the 1982 Lebanon War, which takes him as far a field as The Netherlands in his attempts to make sense of other people’s accounts of the time, in this remarkable and decidedly harrowing animated documentary. Iain.Stott