WHERE IS ANNE FRANK

Cert PG

100 mins

BBFC advice: Contains racism, mild threat, violence, sex references, brief drug misuse, language

One of the most poignant places to visit anywhere in the world is the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam. It is unforgettable.

It seems unfathomable that, given such horrible history, humanity could ever repeat its tragic mistakes.

Director Ari Folman's parents survived the Holocaust and he wanted to use the Anne Frank story to highlight the terrible treatment of modern-day refugees.

He sees their inhumane treatment as uncomfortably similar to that of the Jewish people by the Nazis.

Thus, he combines a new story with the tale of the Franks as they hid in that infamous attic.

He does this through the eyes of Kitty (voiced by Ruby Stokes), Anne's imaginary best friend to whom she wrote her diary.

Part of the film is set in 1944/45 and Kitty comes to life for Anne (Emily Carey) who confides in her about her deepest thoughts over being kept in hiding in Prinsengracht 263.

But she also emerges in the present day from the pages of Anne's diary which is on show in the museum's glass case.

She meets a refugee (Ralph Prosser) who relates his own plight and the thousands who have had to flee their homes to supposed safe havens such at The Netherlands.

Sadly, they have received much less than a warm welcome.

Where Is Anne Frank conveys important truths such as how little we have learned despite the Holocaust featuring on school curricula across the world.

The comparison between the Jews and current asylum-seekers is not only fair but should make us suffer collective shame.

Meanwhile, this is a beautifully drawn and pitched movie.

Has Folman matched his much-lauded Waltz With Bashir? He just might have done.