The Tale of the Goat

A deceptively simple animated retelling of S. Y. Agnon’s bleak fable of an elderly father, a feckless son and a wandering goat.
From 2008 Festival: Director, United States Max Cohen was born in 1983 in Chicago. He studied film and political science at Vassar College. He taught himself to animate while making The Tale of the Goat (2004), which went on to show at the 2005 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival among others. He lives in New York City, and is working on his next film, Wool.
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