The Oscar-nominated documentary Rabbit à la Berlin, by Bartek Konopka and Piotr Rosołowski, will inaugurate the 8th Cronograf Documentary Film Festival, to be held in Chisinau during May 11-16, Info-Prim Neo has learned from the Festival’s organizers, OWH Studio. Rabbit à la Berlin is a story about thousands of wild rabbits which lived in the Death Zone of the Berlin Wall. As if the green belt between the two walls was 'designed' for those animals – full of untouched grass, the predators stayed behind the wall and the guards made sure no one 'disturbed' the rabbits. They had been living there for 28 years, enclosed but safe. When the Wall fell down one day, the rabbits had to look for another place to live. The film is an allegory which brings closer the history of Eastern Europe as seen from the 'rabbit' perspective. “When we first learned (…) that thousands of rabbits had lived right up against the Berlin Wall, as if in paradise, we thought to ourselves that this would be an opportunity to recount the history of Eastern Europe from a different perspective. From the viewpoint of the rabbits; in other words, those citizens of socialism whose concerns were confined to their own back yard, who never stuck their heads above the battlements and who tried to live normal lives under a state-controlled system. Like our grandparents and relatives, like many people we know. For them, the collapse of socialism and the stark necessity of starting to live of one’s own accord was a challenging experience. In this film, what we want to look at is freedom and security. (…) It is impossible to have both these values at one and the same time. And yet we never stop seeking the golden mean”, said the directors. Rabbit à la Berlin will be screened at the opening of the 8th Cronograf Festival, on May 11, at the movie theater Odeon in Chisinau.