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Green Border
2024

Green Border

One of the year’s most successful ensembles, creates an ‘empathy machine’ to experience the world of refugees, viscerally trapped between hope and despair. Three times nominated Oscar winner Agnieska Holland gives us this doco drama, one of the most powerful works of recent times.

Director

Agnieszka Holland

Runtime

147 Minutes

Country

Poland, France, Czech Republic, Belgium

Classification

M

“An angry and urgent masterpiece - supremely accomplished - it could not be more timely – 5 Stars.” (The Guardian)

In turn gripping and poignant, one of the year’s most successful ensembles, creates an ‘empathy machine’ to experience the world of refugees, viscerally trapped between hope and despair.

Belarussian dictator Alexander Lukashenko cynically engineered the Green Border welcoming airplanes of refugees on their way to Europe Union, only to be pushed back at the Polish Border, endlessly trapped between the two countries, with their only hope young activists and others morally compelled to intervene, including the occasional sympathetic border guard or a local unable to turn a blind eye.

A family of Syrian refugees on their way to meet a family member in Sweden and an older Afghani teacher with ties to Poland find themselves pawns in this cruel battle between a dictator and a cold regime protecting its border, but alternately welcoming fellow European refugees from Ukraine.

30 years after Europa Europa, where she told the story of a young Jewish boy maneuvering to survive, three times nominated Oscar winner Agnieska Holland give us in this doco drama, one of the year’s most powerful films. She returns to the theme of a division in the soul of Europeans - between a culture of law and democracy and one of unspeakable self-interest.

"Green Border is unforgettable, in all senses of the word.”

Vulture

“Green Border strikes me as the best and most important film to be released in the U.S. so far this year… spectacularly beautiful.”

RogerEbert.com

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Film Credits

Director

Agnieszka Holland

Year

2023

Country

PolandFranceCzech Republic & Belgium

Language

PolishArabicEnglish & French

Subtitles

English

Type

Feature & Fiction

Program Strand

World Cinema

Producer

Fred Bernstein

Writer

Maciej PisukGabriela Lazarkiewicz & Agnieszka Holland

Cinematographer

Tomek Naumiuk

Editor

Pavel Hrdlička

Cast

Jalal AltawilMaja OstaszewskaBehi Djanati AtaiMohamad Al RashiDalia Naous & Tomasz Włosok

Music

Frédéric Vercheval

Film Source

Sharmill Films

Genre

Drama

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