Green Border
2023 film directed by Agnieszka Holland
Green Border (Polish: Zielona granica) is a 2023 drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland. The film is written by Holland, Gabriela Łazarkiewicz-Sieczko, and Maciej Pisuk, and stars an ensemble cast that includes Jalal Altawil, Maja Ostaszewska, Behi Djanati Atai, Tomasz Włosok, Mohamad Al Rashi, Dalia Naous, Maciej Stuhr, and Agata Kulesza. It dramatizes the plight of migrants caught in the Belarus–European Union border crisis. The film was an international co-production between companies in Poland, Czech Republic, France, and Belgium.
The film competed for the Golden Lion at the 80th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize. It received positive reviews from critics but was condemned by the then right-wing Polish government officials and by some segments of the wider Polish nation. It was released in Poland on 22 September 2023 by Kino Świat.
Plot
In 2021, a Syrian refugee family—parents Bashir and Amina, their three children Nur, Ghalia, and an infant, with Bashir's grandfather Mohamed—arrive at an airport in Minsk, Belarus. The group plans to cross the open 'green border' from Belarus to Poland, go through Germany, then meet a relative of theirs in Sweden. Leila, an English-speaking refugee from Afghanistan, accompanies them.
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