Polish Official Harshly Criticizes Film That Explores Migration Crisis at Poland-Belarus Border
U.S. News & World Report WARSAW, Poland (AP) A leading member of Polands conservative government has sharply criticized a film that explores the humanitarian disaster affecting migrants along the Poland-Belarus border which premiered Tuesday at the Venice Film Festival.
Green Border, by Polish director Agnieszka Holland, puts a spotlight on the refugee crisis that emerged two years ago at Belarus' borders with the European Union nations of Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. The film is in competition at the festival.
Polands hard-right justice minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, slammed the film, comparing it to Nazi propaganda.
In the Third Reich, the Germans produced propaganda films showing Poles as bandits and murderers. Today they have Agnieszka Holland for that, Ziobro wrote Monday on X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter.
According to the film festivals description, the feature film dramatizes the tragedy that has played out in this green border of swamps and forests in a story showing the intertwining lives of a Polish activist, a young Polish border guard and a Syrian family.
