Kids friendly! This is a double feature evening with two short films (25 mins & 50 mins).

Film 1
Animation feature Esterhazy puts on screen the children's book by Irene Disch and Hans Magnus Enzensberger -- two names that will ring familiar to those who have attended secondary school in Germany. Let yourself and your kids be charmed by this old school clay animation film, following the story of young rabbit Esterhazy who lives by the Berlin Wall in 1989. The Wall comes down -- and then what ...?

2009
Directed by Izabela Plucinska
25 minutes

Film 2
The documentary Mauerhase (Rabbit à la Berlin) provides a fresh look at the Berlin Wall -- from the view point of the wild rabbits that lived where no humans were allowed to set foot for many decades.

2009
Directed by Bartek Konopka
50 minutes

Both films will be shown in German with English subtitles.

Drinks and nibbles as usual.

Screened in co-operation with the Goethe-Institut New Zealand.