The Cine Files: from Jodie Comer's The Bikeriders to Jesse Eisenberg as a sasquatch, June's best cinema films
As it is every month, there are plenty of fantastic movies from around the globe. However, those who can only handle films in English aren’t left out, while the super-strange and wonderful Sasquatch Sunset doesn’t have any words at all.
Film of the month: Green Border
Once the opening aerial shot of the forest between Poland and Belarus fades permanently from verdant green to stark black and white, it’s a long, cold, dark night for humanity in Polish director Agnieszka Holland’s savagely gripping indictment of those two countries’ migration policies.
In 2021, Belarus’s president Alexander Lukashenko maliciously began weaponising Middle-Eastern and other migrants against the EU by offering airline tickets to his country and the promise of onward entry to Europe. As we see one Syrian family touch down in Minsk, believing they are heading to Sweden only to be driven to the Polish border and forced through a barbed-wire fence, it’s clear they are the abandoned victims of a vicious hoax.
They are now in the exclusion zone between Belarus and Poland, a swamp-infested, freezing forest, with no food, water and little phone signal. And from here, the cruellest of Kafka-esque nightmares begins, but with guns, batons and snarling dogs.
If they manage to reach the Polish side of the zone without perishing, border guards will drag, push and even hurl
