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Leave it to Belarus, that eternal hotbed of human rights violations, and specifically to dictator Alexander Lukashenko, to fan the flames of the European migrant crisis, now nearly 10 years on. In ...

In times of war, and times of refugees risking their lives for lives to call their own, the distance between life and death can be measured in the length of a human hand, reaching out. “Green Border,” ...

Editor’s Note: This review was published during the 2023 Venice Film Festival. Kino Lorber releases “Green Border” in select theaters Friday, June 21, 2024. If you’ve seen “Europa Europa,” the ...

The acclaimed, three-time Oscar nominee has been the target of attacks by Poland's right-wing government, which has compared her new refugee drama to "Nazi propaganda." By Scott Roxborough Europe ...

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 ...

As if to come to the aid of her national cinema after the debacle that was Roman Polanski’s The Palace, Poland’s Agnieszka Holland, soon to turn 75, restores some of her homeland’s cultural dignity ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...