Director Agnieszka Holland won a Special Jury Prize at Venice for this hard-hitting drama considering the plight of refugees who are shunted back and forth across the no man’s land between Poland and Belarus.

Polish director Agnieszka Holland won a Special Jury Prize at Venice Film Festival for this thought-provoking examination of the European refugee crisis. Her drama explores the plight of those who seek sanctuary in Europe and are shunted back and forth across the no-man’s land forests between Poland and Belarus. Unfolding from the point of view of a Syrian family and an Afghan (Behi Djanati Atai), a conflicted border guard (Tomasz Wlosok) and a psychologist (Maja Ostaszewska) who becomes an activist, Holland has crafted a tough but vital piece of cinema that condemns the West’s indifference and calls for empathy for the refugees’ predicament.

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