“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 ...

Robin Wright in The Congress by Ari Folman, photo courtesy of Gutek Film In The Congress, popular culture takes over the role of religion as the “opium for the people.” The escape from reality leads ...

Ari Folman's follow up to his 2008 breakthrough “Waltz With Bashir” opens the Directors' Fortnight at the fest. By Todd McCarthy The Congress Cannes Directors Fortnight Still - H 2013 Now in ...

Reviews of Ari Folman's The Congress have been positive, contributing to audience anticipation. Opening in Polish cinemas in September, the film is based on a novel by Stanisław Lem. Robin Wright in ...

The Congress, Ari Folman’s follow up to his Oscar-nominated animated documentary Waltz With Bashir, has picked up €700,000 ($963,000) in production funding from Filmstiftung NRW in Germany.

Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman fused poetic animation with brutal reality in his breakout 2008 film Waltz With Bashir, a personal account of the Lebanese conflict of the early 1980s. The Congress ...

That’s an idea to set tongues wagging at the Cannes Film Festival, and it’s the distinct impression left by Israeli director Ari Folman’s head-spinning part-animated feature “The Congress.” ...

Paris bank Coficine-Natixis, one of Europe’s primary lenders to its film industry, is closing financing on Ari Folman‘s “The Congress,” his follow-up to “Waltz With Bashir.” ...

The Congress, the experimental animation/live-action hybrid by Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir), has nabbed itself a North American distributor. The deal is a co-acquisition between Drafthouse Films ...

“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 ...