CANNES, France—Featuring Anne Frank’s imaginary friend Kitty as its guiding force, a new animated film presented at the Cannes Film Festival seeks to reconnect one of the defining stories of the World War Two Holocaust against the Jews to the present day—and a new audience. By “Waltz with Bashir” creator Ari Folman, “Where is Anne Frank” goes beyond the narrative of Frank’s diary, written by the teenager when she hid with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Through Kitty, who leaps out of the pages into contemporary Holland, Folman connects the story to a generation of teens wearing torn jeans and baseball caps, against the backdrop of an illegal immigrant crisis in Europe that provokes fresh dilemmas for the characters and viewers. “I had to invent something new. I couldn’t do the diary as it was,” Folman told Reuters in an interview, adding that it was “important …