With powerful ‘Green Border,’ a filmmaker searches for humanity in immigration stories
The border in Agnieszka Holland’s powerful “Green Border” is a swampy, forested exclusion zone between Belarus and Poland.
Beginning in 2021, when the film takes place, refugees from the Middle East and Africa attempting to seek asylum in the European Union were mercilessly used as pawns in a cynical ongoing geopolitical game. Promised safe passage by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, whose true intention was to fan anti-immigrant ire, they found themselves trapped
