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“Green Border,” Agnieszka Holland’s film about the plight of refugees on the Poland-Belarus border, just stunned audiences at the New York Film Festival.

Director Agnieszka Holland spoke at a NYFF screening about controversial film 'Green Border,' which was denounced by Polish officials as propaganda.

The Polish film Green Border had already courted plenty of international controversy by the time the drama premiered at the New York Film Festival this week.…

The campaign against the film is not restricted to the far-right Polish ruling party. Tomasz Siemoniak, defence minister under Donald Tusk (Civic Platform, PO) until 2015, also mocked the film in a TV interview, comparing its veracity to Star Wars.

Agata Kubis/Metro FilmsAmong her numerous achievements, Polish auteur Agnieszka Holland helmed multiple excellent episodes of HBO’s The Wire, and she brings that series’ blend of docudrama realism and suspenseful urgency to Green Border, an impassioned portrait of men and women navigating a crisis without easy solution or foreseeable end. Screening at this year’s New York Film Festival, Holland’s latest is a tad distended, resulting in repetition that undercuts its po...

This has been a light year for major elections in the West, but Poland currently offers more than its share of political theater.

Film festival viewing, particularly when a conglomeration is as dense and rich the sixty-first New York Film Festival, makes me feel as if, on my own, I’m creating an exquisite corpse.

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Running for reelection, the ruling Law and Justice party is flailing in every direction to keep its populist credibility, but its latest pivot may have far-reaching implications

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