Agnieszka Holland’s Venice Competition Entry Explores ‘Border’ Between Good and Evil Amid Europe’s Refugee Crisis
variety.comChristopher Vourlias Academy Award nominee Agnieszka Holland follows the harrowing ordeal of a refugee family trapped on the margins of the E.U.
in “Green Border,” a gripping drama from the prolific Polish director that plays in competition at the Venice Film Festival.
The film is set in the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so-called “green border” between Belarus and Poland and focuses on the humanitarian catastrophe that unfolded when Belarus’ president, Alexander Lukashenko, opened the country’s doors to migrants in a cynical political gambit to flood the E.U.
with refugees. Told in chapters from alternating points of view, it tells the story of a family of Syrian refugees, an English teacher from Afghanistan, a young Polish border guard and a group of activists whose lives collide in the border zone, a bleak no-man’s land where Polish and Belarusian guards operate with brutal impunity.
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