YouTube hit Alephia 2053 brings dystopian animation to Middle East
By AFP
30 April 2021 |
11:12 am
With more than 8 million views on YouTube since its launch on 21 March, Alephia 2053 offers Middle Eastern viewers a taste of homemade dystopian animation. The film tells the tale of an uprising against a dictatorship in a fictitious state.
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