Event Details
In person: Agnieszka Holland
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, Holland’s “angry and urgent masterpiece” (The Guardian) centers around the 2021 migrant crisis that unfolded in the exclusion zone between Poland and Belarus. Named for the swamplands that cover the region, Holland’s impactful narrative was conceived by reflecting on actual events, using interviews with real border guards and refugees to inform the four interwoven stories that supply the work with its incredible emotional depth. Made with trusted collaborators, including cinematographer Tomasz Naumiuk and co-writer Gabriela Łazarkiewicz-Sieczko, Green Border insists on depicting regional upheaval and conflict by prioritizing its human impact.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
2023 | 152 min. | Poland, France, Czechia, Belgium | Black-and-white | Polish, Arabic, English, French with English subtitles | Not Rated | DCP
DIRECTED BY: Agnieszka Holland
PRODUCED BY: Fred Bernstein, Agnieszka Holland, Marcin Wierzchoslawski
WRITTEN BY: Maciej Pisuk, Gabriela Łazarkiewicz-Sieczko, Agnieszka Holland
WITH: Jalal Altawil, Maja Ostaszewska, Behi Djanati Atai, Tomasz Włosok