Cannes, May 20 (UNI) The 70th Cannes film festival has put the spotlight on the plight of refugees arriving in Europe with a new documentary directed by acclaimed British actor Vanessa Redgrave. 'Sea Sorrow', directed by the 'Atonement' and 'Howards End' actor Redgrave, was presented in the out of competition section of the Cannes festival last night. The film focuses on the miserable conditions in which refugees find themselves in camps after leaving their war-ravaged homelands in places like Syria and Afghanistan. "There are 65 million refugees currently in the world," Redgrave, who has turned director for the first time, said before the screening of the film. The film draws the attention of politicians and the public to the tens of thousands of unaccompanied children among the refugees, who have become orphans in the war and displaced from their countries of origin. 'Sea Sorrow', which was shot in London, Calais in France, Lebanon and Greece among other locations with refugee camps, brings back the problems faced by refugees in Europe in find a home to the world attention. The film, among several movies at the festival dealing with the refugee crisis, shows protests by ordinary people alarmed by the bleak future facing the refugees. In one of the protests in London in September last year, Redgrave interviews a 12-year-old girl, identified on camera as Lily, who says she wants to take some child refugees to her school so that they could play with her and her classmates. 'Sea Sorrow' borrows its title from the William Shakespeare play 'The Tempest', the story of the displacement of Prospero, the Duke of Milan, and his daughter Miranda, who are forced to live on a faraway island after losing power. According to the film's producers, Europe is failing in its responsibility to protect the refugees arriving on its shores. The film sends home the message through interviews with NGOs and volunteers, who emphasise the urgent need to act for saving the refugees. One of the refugee camps appearing regularly in the film is the one in Calais on the French-England border to describe the appalling conditions in which they live. Redgrave spends a long time exhorting the world to remember the pledge they made to protect human rights after the horror of the Second World War. The other films in the official selection at the festival handling the refugee crisis include 'Jupiter's Moon' by Hungarian filmmaker Kornel Mundruczo, about the refusal of Hungary to accept refugees who are using its land to reach countries like Britain and Germany. 'Jupiter's Moon' is part of the competition section of the Cannes festival. Mexican director Alejandro Inarritu has a Virtuality Reality film, titled 'Virtually Present, Physically Invisible', in the festival dealing with the refugee crisis. UNI XC SDR SB 1129