Ari Folman

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Ari Folman in July 2008 at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival

Ari Folman ( Hebrew ארי פולמן; * December 17, 1962 in Haifa ) is an Israeli film director , screenwriter and film producer of Polish-Jewish origin.

Life

Ari Folman completed his military service in the Israeli army in the early 1980s and took part in the Israeli campaign in Lebanon . He then traveled to Asia as a backpacker for several months. The stay abroad inspired him to study film studies on his return to Israel . Folman was already successful as a director with his graduation film at the film school, Comfortably Numb (1991). The focus of the documentary, which he made together with Ori Sivan, was the Iraqi rocket attacks on Tel Aviv during the second Gulf War in 1991. The film won an award at the Jerusalem Film Festival in 1991 and the Ophir Award , the Israeli film award, in the same year . in the Best Documentary Category .

Between 1991 and 1996 Folman devoted himself to the Middle East conflict in various television documentaries before he directed his first feature film Saint Clara (1996) again with Ori Sivan . They were also responsible for the script for the film adaptation of a novel by the Czech Pavel Kohout . In the title role, Lucy Dubinchik can be seen as a 13-year-old Russian immigrant child who uses his supernatural powers to help classmates in the new school in Israel to safely pass a math exam. Clara wins the love of her classmate Tikel (played by Halil Elohev), who tries with her help to start a revolution. With Saint Clara , Folman and Sivan succeeded in building on their first successes; for their sympathetic and humorous look at the children, without any sentimentality, they received international praise from critics. In 1996 the film was the big winner of the Israeli Film Awards with six awards. In addition to the awards for film and leading actress, Folman and Sivan were also honored for their directing. At the 1997 Academy Awards , Saint Clara was on the shortlist for the best foreign language film, but couldn't make it into the five nominees.

After further work on documentaries, Folman's second feature film, Made in Israel, followed in 2001 , without Ori Sivan's participation. The focus of the low-budget production is on the extradition of an 82-year-old Nazi criminal from Syria to Israel who is being pursued by two mutually fighting kidnapper commandos. Once again, the Israeli Film Academy was receptive to Folman's work, which starred Menashe Noy , Yevgeniya Dodina and Sasson Gabai , but preferred Dover Kosashvili's romantic comedy Late Marriage . In Germany, the film-dienst criticized above all the "clichéd script" and the "staging which has fallen into hectic activity" with which Folman tries to "satirize the tense relationship of the young Israeli generation to the Nazi era" .

In addition to directing documentaries and feature films, Folman and Ori Sivan were also responsible for the award-winning Israeli television series BeTipul (2005), in which a successful psychotherapist (played by Assi Dayan ) questions his life and visits his former therapist himself. The American television station HBO used this format, which in 2008 conceived the series In Treatment with Gabriel Byrne as the title hero, in which Folman's ideas were used.

Also in 2008, Folman presented his third feature film, Waltz with Bashir , which was invited to compete at the 61st Cannes Film Festival . In the semi-autobiographical work, an animated film, Folman reflects on his own experiences as an Israeli soldier in Lebanon in the early 1980s as well as the events of the Sabra and Shatila massacres (1982). Waltz with Bashir , of which Folman himself refers to as "a documentary in cartoon guise", received great critical acclaim at its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The animated film was traded as one of the favorites on the Palme d'Or , the main prize of the film festival, but received no awards. Months later, Waltz with Bashir was selected as the official Israeli entry for the nomination for the best foreign language film at the 2009 Academy Awards , with the Golden Globe Award for best foreign language film and the Israeli film award in the categories of best film , director and screenplay . Before working on Waltz with Bashir , the director looked at five-minute animated sequences in the television series The Material that Love is Made Of .

Following the success of Waltz with Bashir , Folman worked on a free film adaptation of Stanisław Lem's science fiction novel The Futurological Congress . The Congress , which was filmed in Germany and appeared in 2013, is half animated, with the director approaching the classic animation of the 1930s and 1940s this time. In the lead role is Robin Wright seen as a struggling actress who sold their digital image to a power-hungry media group.

In 2012 Folman was appointed to the competition jury of the 69th Venice International Film Festival .

In 2017 he published The Diary of Anne Frank as a graphic novel together with graphic artist David Polonski .

Filmography

Film director

Screenwriter

  • 1996: Saint Clara ( Clara Hakedosha )
  • 2001: Made in Israel
  • 2001–2004: Shabatot VeHagim (TV series)
  • 2005: BeTipul (TV series)
  • 2006–2009: Parashat Ha-Shavua (TV series)
  • 2008: In Treatment - The Therapist (TV series)
  • 2008: Waltz with Bashir
  • 2009: Na terapiji (TV series)
  • 2010: Habibti (short film)
  • 2010: HaMadrich LaMahapecha (documentary)
  • 2013: The Congress ( The Congress )

film producer

Awards (selection)

  • 1991: Ophir Award for Comfortably Numb (Category: Best Documentary)
  • 1996: Special Jury Prize of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for Saint Clara
  • 1996: Ophir Award for Saint Clara ( Best Director )
  • 2001: Nominations for the Israeli Film Award for Made in Israel (Best Director, Best Screenplay)
  • 2008: Audience Award at the Warsaw International Film Festival for Waltz with Bashir
  • 2008: Ophir Award for Waltz with Bashir (Best Director, Best Screenplay)
  • 2008: Israel Award for Waltz with Bashir (Best Film)
  • 2008: Asia Pacific Screen Award for Waltz with Bashir (Best Animated Feature Film)
  • 2008: Nominations for the European Film Awards for Waltz with Bashir (Best Director, Best Screenplay)
  • 2008: Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Waltz with Bashir (Best Animated Film)
  • 2009: Bridging the Borders Award from the Palm Springs International Film Festival for Waltz with Bashir
  • 2009: Directors Guild of America Award for Waltz with Bashir (Best Documentary Director)
  • 2009: Writers Guild of America Award for Waltz with Bashir (Best Documentary Screenplay)
  • 2009: Nominations for the BAFTA Award for Waltz with Bashir (Best Animated Film, Best Non-English Language Film)
  • 2009: César for Waltz with Bashir (Best Foreign Film)
  • 2010: Bodil for Waltz with Bashir (best non-American film)

Web links

Commons : Ari Folman  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnaud Schwarz: Un ancien soldat israélien crée l'événement à Cannes . In: La Croix, May 16, 2008
  2. ↑ a b c Biography under The Crew on the official website of "Waltz with Bashir" (English; accessed May 25, 2008)
  3. ↑ Derek Malcolm: Screen: Out of Zion's shadow - Derek Malcolm on politics, Palestinians, and this year's Jerusalem Film Festival . In: The Guardian , July 18, 1991
  4. ↑ Deborah Young: Saint Clara  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.variety.com   . In: Daily Variety , December 11, 1995
  5. ^ Andrew Hindes: Foreign films queue for '96 Oscar race . In: Daily Variety , 18.-24. November 1996, p. 20
  6. ↑ Lexicon of International Films 2000/2001 (CD-ROM)
  7. ↑ Ruprecht Skasa-Weiß: Start to look and be amazed . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , May 13, 2008, p. 16
  8. ↑ Sean Penn et son jury en quête d'une Palme d'or à l'abri des modes (PAPIER GENERAL) . Agence France Presse on May 25, 2008 10:13 AM GMT
  9. ↑ Official shortlist of foreign language feature films with English titles (English; accessed October 22, 2008)
  10. ↑ film profile. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Josef Schnelle: Forever and ever beautiful . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 24, 2011, cultural calendar
  12. ↑ DNB. Retrieved June 20, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Beyond the good years of a woman in FAZ from September 11, 2013, page 27
personal data
SURNAME Folman, Ari
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fulman, Ari; Zippor, Asaf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli film director, screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th December 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Haifa , Israel