war

It was my turn to look after the baby today. I had to get him to have his all-important midday nap. Things were going great - I was walking along the street with him strapped in, snoozing away, when suddenly this pair of fighter jets flew over our heads trailing their sonic boom. Well, that was it. The eyes immediately opened and the nap was over.

Austrian auteur Michael Haneke's brand of filmmaking has been aptly described as “Hitchcock without the melodrama”. He also avoids neat conclusions, preferring ambiguity and the provocation of uncertainty so that his films clatter endlessly around your brain afterwards.

Israeli director Ari Folman, a draftee during Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982, wanted to tell a story about his wartime experiences. But he realised that “noone would want to watch a middle-aged man telling stories that happened 25 years ago without any archival footage to support them.” So he took the unusual step of making an animated documentary.