"The Congress" at Studio Cinema

Saturday, Studio Cinema, 20:30

Ari Folman, known for Waltz with Bashir, released this year at Cannes, in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs opening, his latest film, The Congress, an anti-Hollywood dystopia and a criticism about youth obsession based on Stanisław Lem’s novel Futurological Congress. The animation includes live-action sequences with names like Robin Wright, Paul Giamatti and Harvey Keitel. Nominated for European Film Awards, the film is set in a distant future in which Robin Wright signs a contract with Miramount Studios, and then entitles them to use her digital image in any film, without her participation or consent. The screening will invite Sefi Gayego, movie animation supervisor, animator on Waltz with Bashir and former student of the prestigious Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Israel.