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CANCELLED | Film Screening: Green Border (2023)

Name: CANCELLED | Film Screening: Green Border (2023)
Start: 2024-01-28T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-01-28T16:00:00-05:00
Location: FedEx Global Center #1005

January 28 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

The Screening of Green Border has been cancelled. Thank you for your understanding, and we hope to see you at our other screenings!

Join CES for the 2024 EU Film Festival! From January 26-29, in FedEx GEC 1005, we’ll be screening films and hosting discussions with UNC faculty that speak to contemporary challenges facing Europe, the EU, and the transatlantic relationship. These events are CLE Credit Eligible! Parking is available in the GEC deck during the screenings.

Trailer

A Syrian family leaves the violence of their country behind, hoping to cross from Belarus into Poland and then onto the safe haven of Sweden. But, like so many lost souls, they end up caught in a political maelstrom, demonized by the Polish government, and press and used as pawns in an inhumane, deadly border game. This harrowing, urgent drama from the veteran Polish director Agnieszka Holland constructs an intricate account of the contemporary global humanitarian crisis, expanding out to encompass the interconnected lives of security patrol officers, activist lawyers, and civilians who put themselves on the line for strangers. With the sobering and sometimes shocking Green Border, Holland reaffirms both her unyielding commitment to political filmmaking and the ability of immersive storytelling to illuminate the darkest corners of the world.

Faculty Discussant

Nadia Yaqub is professor of Arab culture in the Department of Asian Studies and adjunct professor in the department of English and Comparative literature. She received her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research has treated Arab cultural texts ranging from medieval literature and contemporary oral poetry to modern prose fiction and visual culture. Her recent publications include Bad Girls of the Arab World (University of Texas Press 2017), a volume of essays co-edited with Rula Quawas, and Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution (University of Texas Press, 2018), a monograph about Palestinian cinema of the long 1970s. She is currently working on a book about engaged cinema from the Arab world of the 1970s and 1980s and an edited volume about visual representations of Gaza.

The EU Film Festival is cosponsored by the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Department of Romance Studies, and the UNC Film Studies program.