So begins 'Green Border,' a searingly powerful new movie from the seventy-five-year-old Polish-born filmmaker Agnieszka Holland, who has spent much of her career casting her cinematic lot with those brutalized by war.
The title refers to a dense maze of forests where Belarus and Poland meet, though we see the trees in full verdant color only briefly, in an opening overhead shot.
But whatever the movie loses in visceral immediacy, it gains in fast-mounting tension and dread as the family-and Leila, who has joined them-are forced across the border by armed soldiers, whose angry voices merge into a barking din.
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