British actress Vanessa Redgrave presents her film on refugee crisis at Athens Film Festival 

ATHENS, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) — Acclaimed British actress Vanessa Redgrave brought her directorial debut film “Sea Sorrow” on the refugee crisis for a special screening in Athens on Friday evening.It is a part of the 23rd Athens International Film Festival “Opening Nights”which runs from September 20 to October 1.Inspired by the photo of Alan, the little Syrian boy whose body was washed up on a Turkish shore in 2015 while his family was struggling to cross the Aegean sea to Greece, along thousands other refugees, Redgrave wrote the script for a documentary which chronicles the story of refugees in Europe since the 20th century.

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