At the “green border”, an almost impassable swamp between Poland and Belarus, immigrants struggle to reach the former, which is doing everything possible to keep them out, with traumatic results.

Agnieszka Holland, one of the world’s greatest living filmmakers, has focused her camera on her native Poland in this devastating film about the refugee crisis. Shot documentary-style, and from a shifting perspective (from refugees to border guards to activists), Holland’s magnum opus takes a god’s eye view of this immigrant crisis, and the result is a stunning work of filmmaking. Acclaimed around the world but condemned in Poland, Green Border must not be missed.

Content advisory: violence