Ari Folman

Writer, director and producer

Ari Folman is a writer, director, and producer. His animated feature film, Waltz with Bashir, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign film in 2009. Based on a true story, the film is a quest into the director’s memory for the missing pieces from the days of the Lebanon War in the mid 1980s. He also co-authored the original graphic novel Waltz with Bashir: A Lebanon War Story with David Polonsky. Folman has written for several successful Israeli TV series, including the award-winning In Therapy (Be Tipul), which was the basis for the HBO series In Treatment. His other films include Saint Clara, based on a novel by Czech author Pavel Kohout; Made in Israel; and Comfortably Numb.