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Tertio Millennio Film Fest is a festival initiated by Pope John Paul II himself. The Vatican hosts of the event announced Agnieszka Holland as “the greatest director of Polish cinema”. As part of her lecture, she decided to share her reflections on “The Green Border”. According to the Catholic Information Agency, however, she used the platform to propagate “her own political views, without expanding them with an objective panorama.” aid activities for refugees in Poland.
According to the eKAI.pl agency, Holland talked about the attitude of the Polish authorities regarding the refugee issue. She referred to 2015, when the phenomenon of such mass migration intensified for the first time due to the ongoing civil war in Syria.
Then the populist Law and Justice party, which was just fighting to get elected, made it the main issue and actually used rhetoric that I hadn’t heard since the Nazi era. They started saying that these migrants were carrying microorganisms and germs that were harmless to them, Arabs, but deadly to us, white Poles.
– The ekai.pl portal quotes the director’s words during a meeting with the audience.
The director also pointed to the huge campaign against immigrants as the reason why “the pursuit of this narrative led to a 40% drop in support for accepting refugees in Poland and that “the European Union was afraid that if more migrants were allowed into Europe, they would win in all countries with such governments.
There was also a Belarusian thread. What does he think about “pigs in the cinema”?
Of course, there were also references to the tension on the Polish-Belarusian border. She stated that “the Polish authorities decided to organize a laboratory of violence and lies there, closing these areas under a state of emergency and not allowing humanitarian organizations, the media or doctors there.”
And the topic of the “Green Border” itself? She primarily raised the issue of President Andrzej Duda’s statements towards people who decided to watch her film in the cinema. She admitted that describing them with the slogan “only pigs sit in the cinema”, known from the times of the Nazi occupation, was offensive to Poles who decided to watch her latest work.
Conflict between Poland and the Vatican. “But this is not our pope”
The host of the meeting even asked Holland whether “by any chance the Church in Poland is in conflict with the Vatican”, to which the director responded jokingly: “Yes, but he is not our Pope” and added that she did not want to “get involved in the Italian-Polish ecclesiastical relations. Is it time for our Polish schism?
Source: polskieradio24.pl, ekai.pl
Source: Gazeta
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