Small World Cinema - Waltz With Bashir
Wednesday 25th November 2009
Starts 19:00
Details from http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1637
Mustafa and Friends are organising a Small World Cinema night at the Sumac Centre.Waltz With Bashir - Ari Folman's animated documentary into the horrors of the 1982 Lebanon war.
Vegan Food from around the world will be served at 7pm. Film 8pm
Admission Free . Donation for Food
Website: http://smallworldcinema.wordpress.com/
In 1982, Ari Folman was a 19-year-old infantry soldier in the Israel Defense Forces. In 2006, he meets with a friend from his army service period, who tells him of the nightmares connected to his experiences from the Lebanon War. Folman is surprised to find that he does not remember a thing from that period. Later that night he has a vision from the night of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, the reality of which he is unable to tell. In his memory, he and his soldier friends are bathing at night by the seaside in Beirut under the light of flares descending over the city. Folman rushes off to meet another friend from his army service, who advises him to discuss it with other people who were in Beirut at the same time in order to understand what happened there and to relive his own memory. Folman converses with friends, a psychologist and the reporter Ron Ben-Yishai who was in Beirut at the time.
The film ends with animation transitioning to actual footage of the aftermath of the Sabra and Shatila massacre.