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The hero is a young, purblind and sawn-off bunny Esterhazy from the Esterhazy-Dynasty in Vienna. He is sent to Berlin by the Patriarch Count Esterhazy, to find a huge, healthy and beefy bunny woman near by some mysterious Berlin Wall. After a long, extensive search he finds his paradise (bunnies’ paradise that existed in the reality in between the East and West part of the famous Berlin Wall). Esterhazy will move there with the love of his life: Mimi, but as it is 1989… the Berlin Wall comes down…The story describes the most important political event of the recent European history – the Fall of the Berlin Wall from an unknown “bunny point of view”. With its humorous keynote the audience will live through the adventures of the hero-bunny Esterhazy the upheaval in that special time of European history. FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
Izabela Plucińska
Born in Koszalin in Poland on 06.10.1974. She graduated from Lodz National Fine Arts Conservatory, National Polish Film School in Lodz and National German Film School “Konrad Wolf” Potsdam- Babelsberg. In 2004, her graduate film project "Jam Session" was selected for the short film competition at the Berlin Film festival 2005, when she has been awarded with Silver Bear. "Jam Session" has been presented on over 60 international festival and won a number of international prizes. In 2006, Izabela founded her own production company "Clay Traces" in Berlin when she is working with a team of young animators from different European countries. She has made "Breakfast" for Polish television. She has directed and produced “7 More Minutes” and "Marathon" in collaboration with Spela Cadez. "Esterhazy" is currently the biggest Izabela's project (25 minutes, 3 years of production), coproduced by Donten & Lacroix Films Poland with participation of PISF, TVP S.A, European Media Program and, on the German side, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, FFA and DEFA Stiftung.
at festivals:
- DOK Leipzig, Germany, 2009 (screening)
- Istanbul Short Film Fesival, 2009 (screening)
- 24th Brest European Short Film Festival, France, 2009 (screening)
- 8th KINOTEKA Polish Film Festival, London, 2010 (screening)
- Festiwal Filmów Polskich „Wisła”, Moskwa, 2010 (screening)
- DOKUFEST, The International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kosovo, 2010 (screening)
- London International Animation Festival (LIAF), 2010 (screening)
- Aye Aye Film Festival, France, 2010 (screening)
- Animatricks, Finland, 2010 (screening)
- Festival on Wheels, Turkey, 2010 (screening)
- MyEurope Film Festival, Germany, 2010 (screening)
- 16. Festival on Wheels, Turkey, 2010 (screening)
- Brussels Animation Films Festival, 2010 (competition)
- Taiwan International Children’s Film Festival, Taipei, 2010 (competition)
- 6th New York Polish Film Festival, USA, 2010 (competition)
- Animafest Zagreb - World Festival of Animated Film, Croatia, 2010 (competition)
- Huesca International Film Festival, Spain, 2010 (competition)
- International Animation Film Festival in Annecy, France, 2010 (competition)
- Melbourne International Animation Festival (MIAF), 2010 (competition)
- Message to Man International Film Festival, St Petersburg, Russia, 2010 (competition)
- Expresion en Corto, Mexico, 2010 (competition)
- Fantoche Festival in Baden, Switzerland, 2010 (competition)
- International Short Film Festival in Drama, Greece, 2010 (competition)
- Ourense International Film Festival, Spain, 2010 (competition)
- Festival du cinéma européen en Essonne, France, 2010 (Prix Spécial des Lycéens )
- International Festival of Animated Film BANJA LUKA, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2010 (competition)
- 4th International Animation Festival ANIMANIMA, Serbia, 2010 (competition)
- 20th Flickerfest International Short Film Festival, Australia, 2011 (competition)
- Jameson Cinefest Miskolc International Film Festival, Hungary, 2011 (competition)
- 18th KROK International Animated Film Festival, Ukraine, 2011 (competition)
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