Green Border (PG15, black & white; English Subtitles; 2 h, 32 m) is receiving rave reviews throughout the world. Don’t miss your chance to see this incredibly significant film at Harbor Theater, starting Friday, September 6. 

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.

“Green Border is not an easy watch, but it is an indescribably important one, and one of Holland’s most humane and compassionate works yet.”
- Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, AWFJ.org

“The haunted faces of actors such as Jalal Altawil are hard to forget. An extended coda, in which Ukrainian refugees are warmly welcomed by the same Polish guards who tormented Syrian refugees, packs a serious punch.”
– Tara Brandy, Irish Times

“Green Border confronts the horror and heroism of the refugee crisis. With pulse-pounding sweep and moral fury, the veteran Polish director Agnieszka Holland turns her camera on injustice at the Polish-Belarusian border.”
– Justin Chang, The New Yorker

“4 stars (out of 4) ...Very few things are harder in film to get right than the very recent past. Holland’s film succeeds, and not only because this recent history is not past. It’s prologue.”
– Michael Phillips, Chicago Review