One of the heated topics that dominated debates in this year’s French elections was the refugee question. Sea Sorrow didn’t necessarily care about style as much as content, something that left it with little praise from critics, who argued that activism has confused the structure of the dense work. Redgrave, a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, has utilised William Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest” to draw the connotation. Sea Sorrow is an example, to deconstruct the shameful positions of governments towards the crisis that they somehow created. In another context, two short films in the main competition tackled the question of immigration.

Source: Daily News Egypt June 05, 2017 10:18 UTC