Waltz with Bashir

An Israeli filmmaker interviews former soldiers while trying to recover his memories of the 1982 Lebanon War. Animated conversations, recurring dreams, and reconstructed fragments visualize the unstable space between testimony and recollection as the interviews gradually give shape to what he cannot remember.

Folman's animated interviews give unstable recollection a shifting visual space—recurring dreams, rotoscoped movement, and Max Richter's score make the search for wartime memory both investigative and psychologically uncertain.