Awards-wise, this may prove to be the international feature to beat.

The stewardesses hand out roses, wishing everyone a nice stay in Belarus.

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Its a welcome that will soon ring very, very hollow.

‘Green Border’

‘Green Border’Venice Film Festival

The Syrians plead for the bare minimum some compassion knowing that help will not be forthcoming.

If you came to our town, says one, we would invite you in.

Why are you doing this to us?

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Their superior concludes by saying, with bone-chilling flippancy, that there must be no dead bodies.

If you see one, he says, knowingly, it shouldnt be there.

What happens next drives the moderate, probably centrist woman to radicalism and into the arms of the activists.

You said the way would be quick and easy, she laments.

And despite everything we might read in the tabloids, it is anything but.