Sea Sorrow
SECTION: International Forum 2017, Opening Film
SCREENINGS
Opening Ceremony on Wednesday 27.09., 7.30 p.m., Tafelhalle, Q&A with Vanessa Redgrave
SYNOPSIS
Vanessa Redgrave is a Special Representative for the United Nations Childrens Fund. Since 1993 she has worked in Sarajevo, Belgrade, Zagreb, in Slovenia and Macedonia during the war; and in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999 with UNICEF and the Mother Theresa Society.
She is a long standing supporter of a number of Russian human rights societies, including MEMORIAL, The Sakharov Foundation and ‘For Human Rights’. In 1999, with her brother Corin, she founded the International Campaign for Peace and Human Rights in Chechnya.
She works for the rights of asylum seekers and refugees with UNHCR.
In 2004 she worked with UNRWA in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, and with Eyal Bloch and Amos Mokadi for OLYMPEACE. She is a passionate supporter of the West East Divan Orchestra.
She has financed and produced documentary films including: The Palestinians (1977), Can’t We Put Human Beings First (1991 for UNICEF’s emergency appeal for Iraqi children). Children’s Stories: Chechnya (2000) and Russia/Chechnya: Voices of Dissent (2005).
FILMOGRAPHY
Blow up (1966), Protest (1966), Julia (1977), Wetherby (1985), Prick Up Your Ears (1987), Wiedersehen in Howards End (1992), Mission Impossible (1996), Foxcatcher (2014), Sea Sorrow (2017)
