Green Border is a 2023 movie by Agnieszka Holland.
The mood reminds me of the 2013 Oscar winner Ida. The "green" is the reference to the forest on the border between Belarus and Poland. It fades from green to black and white in the first scene of the movie and stays black and white till the end. It is a soul crashing drama, but it is also a documentary. I remember that Belarusian border crisis. I think Green Border presents the people and the 2021 events quite objectively. The epilogue is from another refugee crisis, from the Ukrainian-Polish border in February 2022.
Unlike in some Hollywood productions, main actors have connections with the characters they play (ethnicity, language, life experience) and play convincingly. I watched it on Australian SBS and it is shown with characters speaking: Arabic, Russian, English, Polish, French, with English subtitles. Highly recommended.
If you like this move, you may also like Agnieszka Holland's 1990 movie Europe, Europe.
