Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border opens on a wide shot of an endless stretch of trees — the densely forested, almost primeval zone marking the boundary between Belarus and Poland where much of the film ...

Warsaw's right-wing government has attacked Agnieszka Holland's award-winning drama, which highlights the plight of refugees on the Polish-Belarusian border. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief ...

The Venice Film Festival competition entrant revolves around various people trying to cross the border from Belarus into Poland. By Leslie Felperin Contributing Film Critic If cinema is an empathy ...

The new film Green Border, from acclaimed Polish director Agnieszka Holland, dramatizes the humanitarian crisis facing millions of migrants seeking refuge in Europe. It tells the true story of how ...

Agnieszka Holland’s migrant crisis drama Green Border has achieved the best opening weekend in Poland for a Polish film in 2023 in spite of a fierce political backlash from the country’s right-wing ...

The film weaves together several narratives, all converging on the treacherous “green border” between the two European countries. First and foremost is the story of a tight-knit Syrian family, fleeing ...

The Polish multiple Oscar nominee co-writes and directs a gripping account of the inhumanity and depravity that ensues when those fleeing persecution are made political pawns. The GPS on Leila’s phone ...

October, 2021, a plane bound for Belarus. Among the passengers are a Syrian couple, Bashir (Jalal Altawil) and Amina (Dalia Naous), who are travelling with their three children and Bashir’s father ...

The Polish director tells BIRN she decided to make a movie about the humanitarian crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border because the situation for migrants there reminded her of scenes from the early ...

Agnieszka Holland’s astonishing epic “Green Border” presents the current refugee crisis from multiple points of view to illuminate the moral and emotional complexities of this hot button political ...