TRAILER

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

“Shot in black and white and inflected at various points with subjective nightmare imagery (Holland has said that everything in the film has been carefully researched and fact checked)… Holland is not merely depicting a wide range of attitudes and behaviors around the migrant crisis: She is showing us a politically effective and humane way to act. What is most extraordinary about the film is that it insists on hope—not out of sentimentality but as a discipline. Generous as that action is, GREEN BORDER lays bare, with heartrending clarity, how solidarity is shaped along lines of race…”
– Amy Taubin, Artforum

Returning with one of her most acclaimed films in years, Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border premiered at Venice Film Festival last fall where it picked up a Special Jury Prize. Now, the harrowing, deeply humanistic account of the migrant journey between Belarus and Poland, will arrive in U.S. theaters starting June 21.

Shot in stark black-and-white, this riveting thriller explores the intractable conflict from multiple perspectives: a Syrian family fleeing ISIS caught between cruel border guards in both countries; young guards instructed to brutally reject the migrants; and activists who, at great risk, aid the refugees. Holland (EUROPA EUROPA) brings an unflinching eye and deep compassion to this blistering critique of a humanitarian calamity that continues to unfold.

Holland is best known for her films Europa Europa (1990), for which she received a Golden Globe Award as well as an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nomination, The Secret Garden (1993), Angry Harvest and the Holocaust drama In Darkness, the last two of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2017, she received a Alfred Bauer Prize (Silver Bear) for her film Spoor at the Berlin International Film Festival. In 2020, she was elected President of the European Film Academy. In 2023, her film Green Border won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival

Lead image:  A still from Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border. Agata Kubis