This is a graduation film from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. It's an interpretation of the utopian novel by Theodor Herzl who envisioned a Jewish state more than a century ago. Sariel Keslasi created an animated allegory to to describe how he sees this achievement in modern Israeli society. "Altneuland" has played at Annecy and Cannes this year. Check out this fine work in traditional animation...

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