Where Is Anne Frank (2021)

This is an ambitious production by Ari Folman, one of the most notable animation artists in the world. He has already once brought his autobiographical (and now iconic) film Waltz with Bashir to Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, even though one of the biggest festivals in the world seldom chooses animated films for its Official Selection. Where is Anne Frank had its world premiere in Cannes too, this time out of competition. In this latest work, the director rhymes the relevant with the timeless, comparing Anne Frank’s story as described in her diary with the destiny of refugees in today’s Europe. He does it with the help of an elaborate plot: Kitty, Anne Frank's imaginary friend to whom the girl devoted her writing, emerges out of thin air in present-day Europe. She lives in the Anne Frank House museum, has magical abilities, is friends with an underage vandal and thief in Amsterdam and wants to find her favourite Anne — because if Kitty came to life, then Frank must have appeared somewhere as well.