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Jun 28, 2024 · A searing drama about a European refugee crisis that resonates with similar crises in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and yes, America’s southwestern border, Agnieszka Holland’s “Green Border” strikes me as the best and most important film to be released in the U.S. so far this year. That judgment is due not only to the fraught ...
Jun 19, 2024 · We start in October 2021, with a Syrian family headed by a torture victim named Bashir, flying into Belarus, where they expect to cross the greenly forested border into Poland and then claim ...
5 days ago · Much of the violence happens at night, when guards in face masks herd migrants into trucks, or when the refugees try to make a run for it through thick brush and waist-high mud to the supposed freedom of Europe—only to be hoisted back the next night, trapped in an absurd and dehumanizing loop.
Jun 19, 2024 · Oscar-winning filmmaker Agnieszka Holland's searing drama about migrants caught between nations is brutal, accusatory — and essential viewing.
- David Fear
Jun 21, 2024 · Green Border, unsurprisingly, has been condemned by the right in Holland's home country. When it won the jury prize in Venice, Poland’s then justice minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, likened it to...
Jul 2, 2024 · A fiction firmly rooted in fact, “Green Border” dramatizes the crisis through different players — migrants, guards and activists — converged in and around the border of Poland and Belarus.
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Oct 9, 2023 · Green Border moves beyond documentary-style realism as a shorthand for authenticity, and it’s at its most gut-wrenching when Tomek Naumiuk’s agile camerawork captures bodies in frequent, frightening motion, as well as the illusory sense of security that those bodies feel in moments of rest.
