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In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped in a geopolitical crisis cynically engineered by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko. In an attempt to provoke Europe, refugees are lured to the border by propaganda promising easy passage to the EU. Pawns in this hidden war, the lives of Julia, a newly minted activist who has given up her comfortable life, Jan, a young border guard, and a Syrian family intertwine.
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The urgent reflection of the hypocrisy of immigration policies in a Europe that has failed in its social and economic proposal is shown in a film that tries to diversify points of view, which makes it more complex. It is not only the point of view of a family that ends up immersed in the nightmare of dehumanization and the use of refugees as political currency by countries like Belarus, but it also approaches other perspectives (activists, soldiers with something of humanitarian conscience...) to show a diverse reality in which, however, the victims are always victims. There is also hypocrisy when it's pointed out the difference in treatment towards refugees from nearby wars versus those from distant wars.
Thank you Agnieszka Holland for making this film. In Poland, the film was banned for being Nazi propaganda (according to the far-right government there). It is shocking to see how the white Russians and Poles literally play with human lives by pushing them back and forth across the border. There is only 1 solution and that is to revolt, so what are we waiting for?