Rabbit a la Berlin/Esterhazy (Double Bill)

The KINOTEKA Polish Film Festival at the Tricycle

A Double Bill of Short Films

Esterhazy
Dir. Izabela Plucinska/ Poland/ 2009/ 25 min

Esterhazy is sent by the Patriarch to Berlin in 1989 to find a huge, healthy and beefy bunny wife. After a long, extensive search he finds a paradise of bunnies near the Berlin Wall.

Rabbit a la Berlin
Followed by a Q&a with director, Bartek Konopka (tbc)
Dir. bartek konopka/ Poland/ 2009/ 50 min

This is the untold story of the wild rabbits inhabiting the area between the Berlin Walls. For 28 years, the Death Zone was their sanctuary: plenty of grass, no predators, and guards protecting them from human trespassers. When their population reached several thousand, however, the guards started to remove them. But many survived. Then the wall came down. They are still learning how to live in the free world, in much the same way as the citizens of Eastern Europe.

Nominated for Best Documentary Short, 2010 Academy Awards

A London Documentary Film Festival partnership screening

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