Biography
Ari Folman — director with roots in the Russian Empire
Ari Folman is an Israeli filmmaker born in Haifa in 1962 to Holocaust survivors. His 2008 animated documentary Waltz with Bashir brought him global acclaim and an Academy Award nomination.
"Parents survived Auschwitz and emigrated to Mandatory Palestine before Israeli statehood."
Migration storyRussian Connection
Tracing the roots — Poland (Lodz)
Folman's parents survived Auschwitz, uprooted from the Polish-Jewish communities that once fell within the Russian Empire's Pale of Settlement. Their trauma became the raw material for his art—Waltz with Bashir is explicitly a film about inherited and suppressed memory.
Director of Waltz with Bashir.
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Origin
Poland (Lodz)🇷🇺 Russian Empire
Historical context
Russian Empire · c. 1721–1917
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Poland (Lodz). At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.
Map: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA)
Key Achievements
A career defined by ambition
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Waltz with Bashir (2008) Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film
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Golden Globe winner, Best Foreign Language Film, 2009
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BAFTA nomination for Best Film Not in the English Language
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The Congress (2013), Berlin Silver Bear nominee
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Writer on the Israeli TV series In Treatment
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