Agnieszka Holland Calls Her Prize-Winning Refugee Drama ‘Green Border’ “Collective Psychotherapy” — Cannes Lions
deadline.comAgnieszka Holland, who won the special jury prize at last year’s Venice Film Festival for her film Green Border about refugees on the Polish-Belarussian border, believes it serves as “collective psychotherapy” for those affected by the situation.
Speaking at the Cannes Lions Festival, the thrice Oscar-nominated director said she was “a storyteller” and hopes the film touched people’s hearts, but when asked if it could change the world, she replied: “I don’t think so.” Holland said she feels destined to make films about the political situation on her nation’s doorstep and had been tackling difficult topics since she was a teenager in communist Poland, and later as a student in communist Czechoslovakia: “I am also a person of border identity.
My mother is from a Polish Catholic family, she was a member of the Polish army during the Second World War and a member of the Warsaw Uprising.
As a teenager, she helped several Jews in hiding. “My father was a Jew and practically all his family perished in the Holocaust.
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