Waltz With Bashir

"I lost my memory. I can't remember anything about the Lebanon war. Just one image." Filmmaker Ari Folman revisits the war experience, which he has blocked out of his mind, with the help of friends and fellow soldiers who help him reconstruct those missing memories with their own. Call it an animated documentary: Folman uses animation not just to illustrate but explore the subjective quality of their remembrances, a mix of mind's eye first-person observation, dream, fantasy and the exaggeration of emotional memory. Executed in bold lines and slow but fluid movements, it's never sensationalistic but always strikingly vivid and immediate. It was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2009 Academy Awards. Ari Folman provides commentary (he introduces himself as "writer, producer, director and main protagonist of the film") and a press conference Q&A (in English), and participates in a 12-minute featurette (in Hebrew with English subtitles).