Reel North offers Waltz with Bashir for its second documentary night Jan. 26

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Waltz with Bashir, along with another film released in 2008, mark the first Israeli animated feature-length films released widely in movie theatres since Alina and Yoram Gross's Ba'al Hahalomot in 1962. Waltz with Bashir premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and won a Golden Globe award for Best Foreign Language Film and the National Society of Film Critics award for Best Film,

The Reel North Film Festival and the Basement Bijou at the Thompson Public Library are showing Waltz with Bashir for their second documentary Tuesday night movie night Jan. 25.

Show time is 7 p.m. and the cost is $5 per person with snacks, including Old Dutch barbecue potato chips, included.

  The 90-minute 2008 documentary is rated 18A for violence and sexual content and is animated with subtitles.

In Waltz with Bashir, an Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

Reel North expanded its horizons this season by offering their first documentary night last Nov. 24 when they screened Food, Inc. There was a discussion after that film.

Food, Inc., a 94-minute documentary about the U.S. food industry, was nominated in the category of distinguished documentary achievement for an International Documentary Association award, but lost out last month to Anvil! The Story of Anvil, the story of a pair of faded rockers hoping for one last grasp at stardom.

In an interesting twist, Anvil, failed to make the cut for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 15-film shortlist for feature documentaries, but Food, Inc. has with contenders culled from 89 qualifying films.

The International Documentary Association, or IDA, is a Los Angeles-based group that promotes non-fiction filmmaking.

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