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#4. Ari Folman’s The Congress Gist: In The Congress, an aging actress (Robin Wright) with a disabled child agrees to a large payment to have...

The Congress Director/Writer: Ari Folman Producer(s): David Grumbach, Eitan Mansuri U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Robin Wright, Paul Giamatti, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Harvey Keitel, Frances Fisher, Danny Huston Folman's ...

It's his use of animation in Waltz with Bashir that essentially put the docu filmmaker on the map. Now that Ari Folman figured out his strength, it'll serve him well in this crazy sci-fi premise which for the record includes live-action sequences. Full disclosure: I goofed on this being a 2011 release - but I'm not striking it from the list because we really don't how far into production it is. Here's a preview for what's in store.

I was a screenwriter doing silly instruction films for TV but I wanted to get out and they said you can't unless you go to the army therapist and tell them everything you have been through during your army service. I did that and did ten sessions and was pretty much amazed at the end to hear my story for the first time. Not by the story but the fact that I never heard it before. It was amazing then came the dog dreams of my friend and I started to talk to other friends and decided I wanted to make a film about it.

Yesterday's glaring omission from the Cannes lineup will be the opening film for the Directors’ Fortnight. Edouard Waintrop has nabbed Ari Folman’s The Congress,...