AniNation Festival brings top Israeli and global animated films to Jerusalem Cinematheque.
The series uses illustrations and animations by acclaimed Israeli artists of testimonies, which creates a vivid impression of events that were never recorded on camera.
The Israeli short film, directed by Dovi Keich, won Best Animation for Children at the Girona International Film Festival.
It focuses on two guys, Zhifei a.k.a. Rabbit (Shaoxing) and Xiaojun (Dong Zijian), gifted students at a provincial art college, who are trying to figure out art, life, women, and everything else.
Japanese Manga artist and feature of the festival, Makoto Tanaka, tells the Jerusalem Post about her manga adaptation depicting the suffering of Israeli citizens held hostage by Hamas.
Japanese manga artist Makoto Tanaka, who became famous for her manga story about the kidnapping of Noa Argamani, will arrive from Tokyo to be a guest at the festival.
Miyazaki’s unique work is imaginative and filled with beautiful imagery, but his stories also have great emotional depth, usually from the point of view of children.
It’s a haunting and beautiful look at a girl listening to a Holocaust survivor tell the story of how his life was saved during the war by a pig he hid behind.
If you can flow with the feelings behind the movie and see it as a well-observed version of the psyche of a fragile and traumatized child, you will find much to enjoy.
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