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Saturday, January 13 at 7:30pm Temple Beth Am, Under the Stars

Israel-Luxembourg | 99 minutes | 2023

Where Is Anne Frank

Florida Premiere

Revisiting the fusion of historical narrative and wondrous animation that made his Academy Award-nominated film Waltz with Bashir so uniquely poignant, this profoundly inventive fable from Israeli writer-director Ari Folman examines the life of Anne Frank from the perspective of someone who existed only in the beloved diarist and Holocaust victim’s imagination. A tempest is raging one early morning outside the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. Inside, the glass encasing Anne’s precious diary is smashed, and out of a swirl of ink and some strange magic comes Kitty, the imaginary teenage girl to whom Anne addressed her private missives. Born only with the knowledge offered in the diary’s pages, Kitty doesn’t know about the camps or what became of Anne and her family. As she steals the journal, leaves the house, and journeys out into the 21st century in search of her only friend, Kitty encounters a world in which Anne’s story is everywhere, but the warnings inherent in her legacy are in danger of being lost.

Where Is Anne Frank contains a dash of romance, a grand adventure, and a series of sobering realizations regarding atrocities past and present. The film’s imagery shifts seamlessly between representations of the real world and dreamlike visions, while its music, courtesy of Karen O and Ben Goldwasser, grounds the action in transcendent lyricism. By the end, we come to understand that history is a living thing, so long as we remember to heed its lessons.

Awards

Cannes Film Festival

Director's Bio

Directed by Ari Folman

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Ari Folman was born in Haifa, Israel. His parents met in the Lodz ghetto in Poland and were married on August 18, 1944. They were evacuated to Auschwitz the following morning during the liquidation of the ghetto. Ari is one of Israel’s most acclaimed filmmakers, winning 37 prizes and being nominated for an additional 43, including the Academy Award, Cannes Film Festival, European Film Awards, and Cesar Awards, among others. His film, Waltz with Bashir (2008), was nominated for the Academy Award and won 46 international prizes. His follow up feature, The Congress (2013), starred Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel, and Jon Hamm, and won 10 international prizes.

Cast and Credits

Director

Ari Folman

Screenwriter

Ari Folman, Anne Frank

Cinematographer

Tristan Oliver

Editor

Nili Feller

Cast

Emily Carey, Sebastian Croft, Ruby Stokes, Michael Maloney

Film Info

Year

2023

Country

Israel-Luxembourg

Run-time

99 minutes

Language

English
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