“It was not easy to shoot this film: I thank the producer, who made it possible with optimism, courage and perseverance, the co-directors, the crew, the institutions throughout Europe that helped us. It was a struggle but it was a duty “. Polish director Agnieszka Holland says so, receiving the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival for Green Border, which tells what happens on the border between Poland and Belarus where Syrian and African migrants are literally bounced back at the borders, with their human rights trampled upon. “Since 2014, when the refugee crisis broke out, 60,000 people have died trying to reach Europe and now that we are sitting here the situation portrayed in my film continues, there are people who are hiding in the forests, deprived of their dignity , human rights, security, some of them will lose their lives, some will live here in Europe. And this happens because we don’t want them” Holland points the finger. “But here in Europe and in Poland there are people who are helping and believe that their duty is humanity. I would like to dedicate the award to the activists, to the local people, to all those who are helping, from Poland to Belarus”
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