• Gali Gold
• The Observer,
• Sunday November 2 2008
• Article history

Turbulent times ... Waltz with Bashir

Lebanon, summer 1982. One of the most controversial wars in Israel's short history is in full flow. In an area of west Beirut under Israeli army control, thousands of Palestinian refugees are slaughtered by Lebanese Christian Phalangist militiamen. Twenty years will pass before director Ari Folman, a young Israeli soldier at the time, begins a journey into his repressed past and returns to the days of the notorious Sabra and Shatila massacre. It will take him four more years of intensive film-making with a talented team of illustrators and animators before he delivers the result: the animated documentary Waltz with Bashir, Israel's most praised film in recent years.

1. Waltz With Bashir
2. Release: 2008
3. Country: Rest of the world
4. Runtime: 90 mins
5. Directors: Ari Folman
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