Movie Night at tha Museum / Waltz with Bashir | dir. Ari Folman (2008)

The Museum is delighted to launch a new series of events linking its ongoing exhibitions with movies from Israel and abroad. Once a month, we will screen a movie relating to a prominent exhibition, preceded by an introductory lecture by either a curator of the exhibition or one of its featured artists.
The series program is linked to the exhibition program; we recommend visiting the exhibition before viewing the movie!

Waltz with Bashir | dir. Ari Folman (2008)
90 minutes, Hebrew with Hebrew subtitles

How likely are you to remember what you went through in a war twenty years ago? Twenty-five years ago? Time flies but memory does not rest, it keeps deceiving you again and again. Waltz with Bashir is a rare journey into a personal memory, using a revolutionary combination of documentary film and animation. Director Ari Folman collaborated with illustrator David Polonsky and animation director Yoni Goodman to document the process of delving into the director’s memory. Folman wanders between characters, among them close friends, forgotten army comrades, post-trauma specialists and journalists who reported that war and the ones that followed it. Together they slowly piece a fantastic puzzle of pure, harsh realism that constructs the horrors of war. The film’s subject is the Lebanon war, but the puzzle fits many more wars that have taken place, are taking place and will take place in our world.

The film won many awards, among them the Golden Globe, the Cesar Award and the Ophir Prize; and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, 2009. In almost all cases, this was a first-ever award to an Israeli film, a documentary film or an animated film.

We recommend visiting the exhibition Illustrations: David Polonsky before viewing the movie
The movie is preceded by a short lecture by David Polonsky

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Spaces are limited.
Participation in the encounter includes entrance ticket to the Museum.

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Movie Night — additional encounters:
24/11 Encounter at the Exhibition “The Last Photograph: Ran Tal After Micha Bar-Am" / “The Museum" | Dir. Ran Tal >
8/12 Encounter at the Exhibition “Shira Zelwer: Gathering of Birds” / “Igor & the Cranes’ Journey" | dir. Evgeny Ruman >
12/1 Encounter at the Exhibition “A History of Beauty: Helena Rubinstein’s Miniature Rooms” / “The Powder & the Glory | dir. Ann Carol Grossman & Arnie Reisman >