Waltz With Bashir (DVD)

Synopsis

Academy Award® Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film / Golden Globe® Winner for Best Foreign Language Film

BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR
(National Society of Film Critics)

“It's unlike any film you've ever seen, period. A seamless mixing of the real and the surreal, the personal and the political, animation and live action.”
-Kenneth Turan (Los Angeles Times)

Autobigraphical film follows the director as he tries to recover blacked-out memories of his experiences fighting in the 1982 Israel-Lebanon war. The movie's title comes from a key moment when a soldier in Folman's platoon enters a kind of trance state, firing his gun while dancing in the street in front of a billboard of former Lebanese prime minister Bashir Gemayel.

Inspired by actual events, Waltz with Bashir chronicles one man's descent into his own half-forgotten past. Filmmaker Ari Folman, an Israeli veteran of the First Lebanon War, encounters an old friend suffering from nightmares of the conflict. Ari begins to wonder why his own memories are full of gaps. In an effort to uncover the truth, he reconnects with old friends and dares to confront the horrors of war. Hailed as "innovative" and "devastating," WALTZ WITH BASHIR (Vals Im Bashir from Israel) fuses animation and documentary to create an experience unlike anything you've ever witnessed.