Green Border

Green Border : This movie is based on true story.

In this movie the treacherous and swampy forests between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa are lured by government propaganda that promises easy passage to the European Union.

Unable to cross into Europe and unable to turn back, they soon find themselves trapped in a rapidly escalating geopolitical standoff.

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 importance of the film’s subject but also to filmmaking.

The titular border is the one separating Poland from its neighbor to the east, Belarus. When we first see a portion of the border, filmed from an aerial angle, it is a spectacularly beautiful green, the evidence of one of the last remaining primeval forests in Europe. But that visual beauty doesn’t last. Soon enough, the image shifts to black and white, and we enter a human world of violent oppositions and tragic ironies.

A family of refugees from Syria, an English teacher from Afghanistan and and a border guard all meet on the polish-Belarusian border during the most recent humanitarian crisis in Belarus.

Director of this movie is Agnieszka Holland.

Writers of this movie are Gabriela Lazarkiewicz Agnieszka and Agnieszka Holland.

This Movie was released in theaters on 22Sept.2023 in Poland.

Budget of this movie is US$ 4.1 million.