Film and discussion: Green Border

Dear movie lovers,

On February 5 at 7:00 pm, Seebrücke Marburg and the parliamentary group Die Linke im Kreistag Marburg-Biedenkopf invite you to a screening of the film Green Border in the large hall of the Capitol. Agnieszka Holland's haunting work shows the brutal reality at the Polish-Belarusian border: people trapped in no man's land, pushed back and forth between border guards, locked up in a strictly shielded restricted area. The film interweaves the perspectives of refugees, officials and activists to create an oppressive portrait of how European border policy puts human life at risk and causes moral certainties to crumble.

What appears on screen to be a distant humanitarian catastrophe is not, however, an isolated drama. It is the visible expression of a policy whose consequences extend as far as the district of Marburg-Biedenkopf - and whose logic is reflected in the local debate about a migration turnaround, with consequences such as payment cards and benefit cuts to a subsistence level. The seemingly distant policy of isolation also legitimizes a policy of exclusion in the district of Marburg-Biedenkopf.

Following the film, we therefore want to discuss this with you: How do we prevent the scenes of Green Border from repeating themselves in our midst - not with barbed wire in the forest, but with social coldness and legal exclusion? And how can we take practical responsibility here in the district, shape a truly humane reception and counteract the division?

Come along, bring friends and let's talk about the situation at the EU's external border and here on the ground.

Admission: Free of charge