Agnieszka Holland‘s refugee drama The Green Border has taken the top prize for best film at the Polish Film Awards. The black-and-white feature, which looks at the inhumane treatment of refugees trying to cross the natural border between Belarus and Poland, premiered to critical acclaim at the Venice Film Festival last year but came under attack from Poland’ s reactionary federal government, which called the flick “Nazi propaganda” for its allegedly unfavorable representation of Polish cops and boundary guards. The political strikes are believed to have actually affected the Polish Oscar board’s choice not to place Green Boundary ahead as Poland’s best worldwide film competitor this year, rather picking DK and Hugh Welchman’s Hugh computer animated literary adjustment The Peasants (which did not obtain chosen).
However a whole lot has actually altered in Poland considering that. Legislative political elections last October ousted the nationalist Regulation and Justice (PiS) event, which had actually ruled for 8 years, and placed a centrist, pro-European union led by Donald Tusk in power.
Holland, supervisor of the Oscar-nominated Angry Harvest (1985 ), Europa Europa (1992) and In Darkness (2011 ), additionally got a life time accomplishment honor at this year’s Polish Eagles event, kept in Warsaw on March 4.
“You can only make good films if you’re free and if you’re not afraid,” stated Holland, approving her honor.“And even if you feel fear, you know that the greatest victory is to overcome it. Today we live in a world where monsters are beginning to rule. A huge part of the world is already ruled by monsters. These monsters are confronted by good-natured and quite frightened politicians. And we can’t be such good-natured and rather frightened filmmakers if we want to be more than just providers of escape entertainment in this world. We really have to face this world.”
The various other huge champion was Scarborn, from supervisor Paweł Maślona, an 18th-century duration impressive concerning General Tadeusz ‘Kos’ Kosciuszko, that set in motion the Polish the aristocracy and peasants to lead an uprising versus the Russians. The film grabbed 6 Eagle awards, consisting of for best supervisor and best movie script. In the television honors, Netflix’s 1670 won best Polish dramatization collection. Ruben Östlund’s Triangular of Unhappiness won the reward for best European film.
Complete listing of Polish Film Honor Champions
Best Film
The Green Boundary dir. Agnieszka Holland
Best Supervisor
Paweł Maślona for Scarborn
Best Manuscript
Michał A. Zieliński for Scarborn
Best Starlet in a Leading Function
Magdalena Cielecka in Anxiousness
Best Star in a Leading Function
Eryk Kulm Jr. in Filip
Best Starlet in a Sustaining Function
Agnieszka Grochowska in Scarborn
Best Star in a Sustaining Function
Tomasz Schuchardt in Doppelgänger. The Dual
Best Cinematography
Michał Sobociński for Filip
Best Songs
Łukasz “L.U.C.” Rostkowski for The Peasants
Best Modifying
Nikodem Chabior for Filip
Best Manufacturing Layout
Katarzyna Sobańska, Marcel Sławiński for Filip
Best Outfits
Dorota Roqueplo for Scarborn
Best Cosmetics
Aneta Brzozowska for Scarborn
Best Noise
Radosław Ochnio, Adam Szlenda, Filip Krzemień for Scarborn
Target Market Honor
The Peasants dir. DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman’
Best Docudrama
Pianoforte dir. Jakub Piątek
Best Dramatization Collection
1670 dir. Maciej Buchwald, Kordian Kądziela
Best EuropeanFilm
Triangular of Unhappiness dir. Ruben Östlund
Exploration of the Year
Grzegorz Dębowski for guiding Nothing
Life Time Accomplishment Eagle Honor
Agnieszka Holland
