On Tuesday, the regional court in Warsaw ruled that former Polish Justice Minister and Prosecutor General Zbigniew Ziobro must apologize to Oscar-nominated director Agnieszka Holland for his ...
Poland’s arthouse cinemas are refusing to show a government propaganda spot before each screening of Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border. The move comes after Poland’s deputy interior minister, Blazej ...
Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland’s award-winning “Green Border,” opening Friday at the Coolidge Corner Theater, offers a broad, eye-opening view of the immigrant crisis as it erupted on Poland’s ...
Leave it to Belarus, that eternal hotbed of human rights violations, and specifically to dictator Alexander Lukashenko, to fan the flames of the European migrant crisis, now nearly 10 years on. In ...
Warsaw's right-wing government has attacked Agnieszka Holland's award-winning drama, which highlights the plight of refugees on the Polish-Belarusian border. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief ...
Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border tells story of brutal treatment of a Syrian family trying to get to Europe A prize-winning film sharply critical of the Polish government’s attitude to refugees has ...
The Venice Film Festival competition entrant revolves around various people trying to cross the border from Belarus into Poland. By Leslie Felperin Contributing Film Critic If cinema is an empathy ...
Rather than doing it out of a genuine desire to rehome those fleeing persecution, Lukashenko was using asylum seekers as political pawns. They'd been sold lies about Belarus being an easy gateway into ...
Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border opens on a wide shot of an endless stretch of trees — the densely forested, almost primeval zone marking the boundary between Belarus and Poland where much of the film ...