Agnieszka Holland, a celebrated Polish film director, is known for historical dramas about some of humanity’s greatest crimes, such as the Holocaust or the Holodomor famine in Ukraine.
With this year’s Green Border, the near-present is in her sights, telling the story of the refugees, activists and border guards caught up in 2021’s geopolitical tension on the Polish-Belarusian border, when Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko gave an easy passage to refugees and migrants across the European Union’s swampy easternmost edge during a freezing winter.
