Austin Film Society and Dot Dot Dot Dot Connect present a special advance screening of GREEN BORDER

followed by a virtual Q&A with the director, Agnieszka Holland.

January 15, 2023, 5:30 pm at AFS Cinema, 6259 Middle Fiskville Rd., Austin, TX 78752

Tickets available at: https://www.austinfilm.org/screening/green-border/

The Green Border is a 2023 film, winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 80th Venice Film Festivalnominated for many international awards. The film and its director were awarded the prestigious Fuoricampo Special Prize, the distinction conferred every year by the Vatican to a film that moves people’s consciences and opens the hearts of viewers. It was an unprecedented box office success in the director’s homeland and a flashpoint for political controversy in Poland. This is a film that demands to be seen by everyone.

Three-time Oscar nominee and filmmaker Agnieszka Holland (EUROPA EUROPA, MR. JONES) delivers a statement about ordinary people’s moral choices when confronted with international crises and political manipulations. GREEN BORDER is a wake-up call for all of us to open our minds and hearts. “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 caught in a geopolitical crisis triggered 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 refugee family intertwine.” (Retrieved from La Biennale di Venezia Jan 9, 2023)

 Austin Film Society – founded in 1985 by filmmaker Richard Linklater, the Austin Film Society’s mission is to empower our community to make, watch, and love creative media.

 Dot Dot Dot Connect – a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through art.