When it comes to welcoming migrants and refugees, Europe is “losing its convictions,” Polish director Agnieszka Holland, who made a shocking film on the subject in competition in Venice, warned on Tuesday, AFP reported.

The 74-year-old director is up for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for The Green Border, a two-and-a-half-hour black-and-white film that makes no concessions to the plight of stranded migrants. between Poland and Belarus in 2021.

The film is a way to warn Europeans about their responsibility: “I think the migrant and refugee crisis is a crisis and a challenge that will shape the future of Europe,” the director said at a press conference.

The film, which depicts border guards, aid workers and migrants caught up in the diplomatic game between Belarus and the European Union that has caught up with them, aims to “bring justice and give a voice to those who have been silenced,” she continued.

“I think that Europe is losing its convictions, that Europe is scared, that people and societies are afraid of radical changes in their comfort zone.”

On the other hand, “dictators like (Vladimir) Putin clearly understood the weakness of the European consciousness,” she continues.

The director, whose film is intended to be an electric shock, believes that in the absence of awareness, Europe “will turn into some kind of fortress where we Europeans will kill those who want to join our continent.”

Agnieszka Holland (“Bitter Harvest”, “Europe-Europe”, “Julie Comes Home”, “In the Dark”) is one of the most outstanding voices of Polish cinema, nominated several times for the Oscar.

He lived between Germany, Poland and France, settling in 1981 after martial law was declared in Poland, before moving to the United States, where he directed episodes of such hit series as The Wire, The Killing, House of Cards “…