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2023     152 MIN.     POLAND / FRANCE / CZECH REPUBLIC / BELGIUM     KINO LORBER
IN POLISH, ARABIC, ENGLISH & FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

“Profoundly moving, flawlessly executed.”
– Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter

“Bruisingly powerful… wraps its social critique in the razor wire of punchy, intelligent cinematic craft.”
– Jessica Kiang, Variety

“A stunning, harrowing film. [This] devastating refugee epic reverberates with deep empathy and quiet fury.”
– Phil de Semlyen, Time Out

“A stunning, harrowing film. [This] devastating refugee epic reverberates with deep empathy and quiet fury.”
– Phil de Semlyen, Time Out

„One of the pleasures of Holland’s work is that you never know exactly what to expect; all that is certain is that it will always be worth watching and that, for her, art is a moral imperative.”
– Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

Returning with one of her most acclaimed films in years, Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border premiered at the Venice Film Festival last fall, where it picked up the Special Jury Prize. Now, this harrowing and deeply humanistic account of the migrant journey between Belarus and Poland arrives in U.S. theaters starting June 21. Shot in stark black-and-white, this riveting thriller explores the intractable conflict from multiple perspectives, dramatizing the plight of a group of Syrian refugees who become political pawns in a deadly game at the border. Green Border also examines the responses of police, government officials, activists, medical workers, and regular citizens caught up in the unfolding crisis. Combining the urgency of journalism with the intimacy and storytelling power that marks Holland’s best work, Green Border is a thriller whose stakes are all too real.

Agnieszka Holland, born on November 28, 1948, is a renowned Polish film and television director and screenwriter. Over six decades, Holland has established herself as one of global cinema’s most daring, versatile, and politically committed voices. She is best known for her films Europa Europa (1990), for which she received a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, The Secret Garden (1993), Angry Harvest (1985), and the Holocaust drama In Darkness (2011), the last two of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2017, Holland received the Alfred Bauer Prize (Silver Bear) at the Berlin International Film Festival for her film Spoor (2017). In 2020, she was elected President of the European Film Academy. Most recently, her film Green Border (2023) won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival.

Lead image: A still from Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border
Bio image: Martin Kraft, Wikimedia Commons