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Green Border (2023)
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People stranded around the Belarus-Poland border encounter rules and commands that keep moving responsibility elsewhere. Agnieszka Holland shifts among refugees, guards and volunteers, making the human consequences of those orders difficult to evade. This is harrowing dramatisation, not a neutral account of asylum law, with sustained cruelty and distress.
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About Green Border
In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped in a geopolitical crisis cynically engineered by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko. In an attempt to provoke Europe, refugees are lured to the border by propaganda promising easy passage to the EU. Pawns in this hidden war, the lives of Julia, a newly minted activist who has given up her comfortable life, Jan, a young border guard, and a Syrian family intertwine.