Green Border

For audiences who see “refugee” as just a headline in a newspaper, GREEN BORDER changes everything. It's an urgent, extraordinary film that spears your heart like an arrow. Winner of seven separate prizes at the Venice Film Festival, Green Border recognises that, to put it bluntly, the refugee crisis is a mess that’s too easily written off as “somebody else’s problem.” To break through that, Polish master filmmaker Agnieszka Holland zooms into just a handful of characters, and manages to make a statement with almost every frame. The handheld camerawork lends Green Border a realism, while the black & white imagery lends it a foreboding – the sense that this is living history; a shameful chapter of Europe’s recent past that somehow, we’re still allowing to take place today. We may not share a language or a border or even a nationality with these characters, but those are all constructs. We invented them. As trite as it sounds, the one core truth we all share is that we're all human. While our news cycles work hard to distract us from that, Green Border paints that reminder in bold black ink. Read our full review of Green Border at good.film: https://good.film/guide/this-refugee-film-was-blasted-by-a-right-wing-government-then-it-helped-overthrow-them