If you thought you had seen it all with the saga of the cows on the run in Saint-Sévère, you were not yet aware of the bovine tragedy that took place when the Iron Curtain fell in Mödlareuth, a small farming community lost in the middle of Germany. Here too, it was a question of freedom, of herd behavior, of a border to be crossed… And of a certain media rush!

With virtuosity, Kate McMullen combines archival footage, period re-enactments and a narrative tinged with gentle irony to create this allegorical short film "dedicated to all victims of separation''. Using the levers of anthropomorphism halfway between George Orwell and Jean de La Fontaine, the filmmaker denounces - not without a dose of humor - the way in which the implementation of totalitarian policies is reflected in the lives of ordinary people (and animals!). A memorable tragicomic documentary that takes reality by the horns to offer us a condensed history from a unique point of view.
 

Jason Burnham
Tënk's programming coordinator