Screening of the film “Green Border” by Agnieszka Holland in the Czech Republic during the 50th Letní filmová škola Uherské Hradiště

 

We are honored to be a part of the 50th edition of Uherské Hradiště’s Letní filmová škola! Thanks to our Polish-Czech cooperation, we showed Agnieszka Holland’s “Green Border” there. On August 1, we showed it in the Czech Republic with a special participation of the speaker filmmaker Diana Dabrowska and the director of the Czech Center Petr Vlck, but soon (August 23-25) you will be able to watch it at the festival in Sokolowsk!

 

 

“Green Border” is one of the most important and widely discussed films in the Polish media in recent years. Agnieszka Holland takes us to the Polish-Belarusian border and the humanitarian crisis there. As the esteemed director stated in an interview: “We wanted to show the complexity of the situation, the complexity of human nature and the choices we face. So that there is not an ounce of propaganda in the film. (…) I wanted the film to have maximum credibility. For everything I show on the screen, I have papers.” Holland takes an almost documentary approach to this “apocalypse of everyday life,” the existential limbo in which refugees from Syria or Afghanistan in particular have had to endure.
With black-and-white cinematography, the Polish director portrays a world in which the painful absurdity and zero-sidedness of the situation (good/evil, compassion/envy, life/death) is far from any shades of gray. In “The Green Border,” moreover, we have a threefold mode of storytelling: the perspective of refugees, almost absent from the Polish debate of the time, being tossed from place to place (1), the accounts of male and female activists risking their own health (2), and the observation of one of the border guards (3). The filmmaker takes us on an uneasy, sometimes very drastic journey, but she does not forget about light and hope. With her latest film, Holland reminds us that socio-politically engaged cinema can serve as a valuable tool for unraveling fragments of a reality tainted by violence and indifference.
Hranice, Reduta, Diana Dabrowská, Petr Vlček, Letní filmová škola, 50. ročník, 31.7.2024, Uherské Hradiště

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Project – We must help each other: Polish-Czech film cooperation during the 13th edition of the Hommage a Kieslowski Film Festival and during the 50th edition of the Summer Film School in Uherské Hradiště
Public task financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland in the competition “Polish-Czech Forum for the rapprochement of societies, deeper cooperation and good neighborliness 2024”
Public task financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland within the grant competition “Polish-Czech Forum to bring societies closer together, enhance cooperation and foster good neighborship 2024.