"We at Maramount want to scan you. All of you, your body. Your face, your emotions, your laughter, your tears, your climax, your happiness, your depression, your fears, longings. We want to sample you, we to preserve you, we want to own this thing called Robin Wright". Based on science fiction novel by Stanisław Lem, Ari Folman’s The Congress is a part-animation, part live-action film about an aging actress with a disabled child who agrees to a large payment to have a full-body imaging digitized then utilized to create a digital actress.
The film kicked off the Cannes Film Festival’s 45th Director’s Fortnight. In an interview for the Polish Film Institute which co-financed the film, the director of Waltz with Bashir talks about adapting Lem and his Polish partners in the project. With Michał Englert behind the camera, Opus Film as a co-producer and Orange Studio responsible for the animation, Folman’s choices reveal his attachment to the country of his parent’s origin – Poland. The video includes a sneak preview of the film.