THE GREEN BORDER | ZIELONA GRANICA

POLAND, CZECH REPUBLIC, FRANCE, BELGIUM | 2023 | B&W | DCP | 147’ | POLISH, ARABIC, ENGLISH, FRENCH

Where the dangerous swampy forests of Belarus and Poland draw the so-called ‘Green Frontier’, refugees from every corner of the world are trapped in their search for a better European life in the geopolitical crisis ‘Europe’s last dictator’, Alexander Lukashenko, has created. There, like pawns in an invisible war, the lives of a Syrian refugee family, a British teacher-activist and a young border guard, will collide. 33 years after ‘Europa-Europa’, veteran Agnieszka Holland returns with this topical and revealing drama. A film that aims to the heart, demanding from us to think of the terrible moral dilemmas ordinary people endure daily. Special Jury Prize at the recent Venice FF. Th.P.

DIRECTOR: Agnieszka Holland
SCREENWRITERS: Maciej Pisuk, Gabriela Łazarkiewicz-Sieczko, Agnieszka Holland
DoP: Tomasz Naumiuk
MUSIC: Frédéric Vercheval
EDITOR: Pavel Hrdlička
PRINCIPAL CAST: Jalal Altawil, Maja Ostaszewska, Tomasz Włosok, Behi Djanati-Atai, Mohamad Al Rashi, Dalia Naous, Maciej Stuhr, Agata Kulesza

AGNIESZKA HOLLAND
Polish writer/director, born in 1948. She studied at FAMU in Prague, then returned to Poland and became assistant director for Zanussi and Wajda, of the great Polish School, before moving to France in 1981. Acclaimed worldwide, winner in Berlin and Venice film festivals and once nominated for an Oscar.

FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTED)
2023 The Green Border
2020 Charlatan
2019 Mr. Jones
2017 Spoor
2011 In Darkness
2006 Copying Beethoven
2002 Julie Walking Home
1999 The Third Miracle
1997 Washington Square
1993 The Secret Garden
1992 Olivier, Olivier
1990 Europa Europa
1988 To Kill A Priest
1985 Angry Harvest