When director Ari Folman (“Waltz with Bashir”) was first approached about tackling an Anne Frank movie nearly a decade ago, he immediately refused. He thought everything had been done before, there ...

PARIS – Backup Films, the Paris-based outfit behind “Still Alice” and “Submergence,” has come on board “Where Is Anne Frank,” Ari Folman’s 17.5-million-euro ($18.8 million) animated follow-up to “The ...

Ari Folman continues to follow his own strange star. The Israeli filmmaker will follow his spellbinding animation hybrids “Waltz with Bashir” (Oscar-nominated) and “The Congress” (a high-IQ cult ...

Among the slim lineup of animation premieres at Cannes was Where Is Anne Frank, the latest feature from Israel’s Ari Folman. The director, whose Waltz With Bashir debuted at the festival in 2008, has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fresh look at Anne Frank’s legacy from the perspective of Kitty, the imaginary friend to whom she addressed so many of her diary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ari Folman, the Israeli filmmaker and artist who adapted "The Diary of Anne Frank" into a graphic novel, said Thursday he was ...

Early in “Waltz with Bashir,” director Ari Folman has an onscreen conversation with a friend about a psychological experiment. In the study, subjects were given photographs of themselves from their ...

“A genius designer on an acid trip” is the way one character describes the futuristic animated universe of Ari Folman‘s “The Congress,” which contains one of the most startling uses of the medium to ...

As expected, the Cannes Film Festival has made several additions to its lineup for the 74th edition which runs July 6-17. Among the major new titles are the latest from Gaspar Noé and Ari Folman, as ...

Ari Folman's "Waltz With Bashir" is a bold experiment in one of cinema's most tired genres -- the autobiographical docu. The director spoke with THR about war, memory and the therapeutic process of ...