The Congress (2013 film)
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| Directed by | Ari Folman |
| Screenplay by | Ari Folman |
| Based on | The Futurological Congress by Stanisław Lem |
| Produced by | Diana Elbaum David Grumbach Eitan Mansuri Jeremiah Samuels |
| Starring | Robin Wright |
| Cinematography | Michal Englert |
| Edited by | Nili Feller |
| Music by | Max Richter |
Production company | Pandora Filmproduktion |
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Running time | 123 minutes |
| Countries | France Israel Belgium Poland Luxembourg Germany |
| Language | English |
| Budget | €8 million |
| Box office | $356,172 |
The Congress (French: Le Congrès, Hebrew: כנס העתידנים) is a 2013 English-language live-action/animated science-fiction drama film written and directed by Ari Folman, based on Stanisław Lem's 1971 Polish science-fiction novel The Futurological Congress. It stars Robin Wright as a fictionalized version of herself who agrees to have a film studio use a digital clone of her in any film they want. The Congress then flashes forward twenty years later to her travels in the studio's animated utopia world, where anyone can become an avatar of themselves, but are required to use hallucinogenic drugs to enter a mutable illusory state. The Congress premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival on 15 May 2013. Independent film distributor Drafthouse Films announced, along with Films We Like In Toronto, their co-acquisition of the North American rights to the film and a US theatrical and VOD/digital release planned for 2014.