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Film round-up: June 20, 2024
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Green Border (15)
Directed by Agnieszka Holland
★★★★★
IN this, worldwide refugee week, comes a timely and powerful yet harrowing immigration drama which takes a fresh look at the migration crisis in Europe as it weighs up the inhumanity refugees face against the compassion.
Shot in black and white, three-times Oscar-nominated Polish director Agnieszka Holland pulls no punches in this brutally tough-to-watch drama which takes place in the no man’s land between Belarus and Poland. also known as the “green border.”
This narrative fiction explores the issue via the stories of a Syrian family who are heading to Sweden via Poland, Julia (Maja Ostaszewska) a 50-year-old therapist newly turned activist, and Jan (Tomasz Wlosok) a border guard whose wife is expecting their first child.
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