Besides involving a focus on the latest German TV animation product, this means that delegations from Germany’s two public broadcasters, ZDF and ARD, will be descending on Pescara for a panel discussion with head honchos from other European pubcasters on the challenges of making animation product for the public TV sector and how Europe’s animation market is recalibrating with the arrival of streamers, social media and the metaverse. The country of honor at Cartoons on the Bay will be Germany. and Ireland, the U.S., South Korea and China.Īrtistic director Roberto Genovesi, who is transforming and revamping the event, is also introducing a new prize called the Arlecchino Award, in recognition of the animation piece “that is best able to narrate the complexities of gender identity to a young audience,” he said. Industry execs from across continental Europe, especially Germany, France, Belgium and the Balkans, are expected along with attendees from the U.K. Singularly blending animation with documentary, Waltz with Bashir is a mind-bending odyssey through painful memories, with an ending that will leave you speechless. More than 300 entries from all over the world will be competing for Pucinella Awards in sections that span from the Preschool TV Show category (for ages 2-4) to Youth TV Show (ages 11 and over). Director Ari Folman won a slew of awards for this humane, heartbreaking, and Oscar®-nominated look at the conflict in the Middle East. The studio’s co-founder Ian Mackinnon has been recruited to be on the fest’s jury. Rating: R (Dist.In another high-caliber get, British puppet studio Mackinnon and Saunders, which worked with Guillermo del Toro on “Pinocchio,” will be feted by Cartoons on the Bay with its Studio of the Year Award. In 2006, he seeks out others who were in Beirut at the time to discuss their memories, including a psychologist specializing in post-traumatic stress disorders and the first journalist to cover the massacre. Then came a friends disturbing dream and with. Then came a friend's disturbing dream and with it Folman's need to excavate the truth of the war in Lebanon and answer the crucial question: What was he doing during the hours of slaughter at Sabra and Shatila Stunningly original in form, Waltz with Bashir follows Folman's journey deep into the darkness of Beirut. To understand Waltz with Bashir as an animated documentary the choice to employ animation. As a 19-year-old infantry soldier in the 1982 war with Lebanon, Folman witnessed the Sabra and Shatila massacre, but realizes that he has no memory of the event. Ari Folman was one of those Israeli soldiers, but for more than twenty years he remembered nothing of that night. In the film Waltz with Bashir, the main character Ari Folman.

Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman wrote, directed and stars in this autobiographical animated film.

Waltz With Bashir by Ari Folman