Vanessa Redgrave is to bring her film about the refugee crisis to Battersea Arts Centre next week.

Sea Sorrow, which highlights the plight and courage of refugees, is Vanessa Redgrave's directorial debut.

Featuring Emma Thompson and Ralph Fiennes, it includes interviews and historical footage that sets the current refugee crisis in a meaningful historical context. 

The one-off screening will be followed by a Q and A session with Vanessa Redgrave and Lord Dubs, former MP for Battersea who himself arrived in Britain as an unaccompanied child refugee.

Vanessa Redgrave said: “This film is a requiem for the thousands of refugees who have died through lack of support and protection.

“I hope the film may be of some help to the agencies who do their utmost to support the refugees who have survived, most especially to their children”.

The event will take place on December 18 and is being organised by the Wandsworth European Cultural Network (WECN).

Cllr Candida Jones, a member of WECN, said: “As well as enabling us to understand more about the current refugee crisis, I hope the evening will provide us with the opportunity of examining how we might do more as individuals, as a community and as a borough to ease the suffering of refugees fleeing war.

“Only one Syrian refugee family has been resettled in Wandsworth.

“If just one offer of housing is made as a result of this film, it will have been a success”.

Tickets cost £12.50 or £10 for concessions and all profits go to the UNHCR. Tickets are available here.