Europe's Migrant Tide Ripples Through Venice Film Fest

Few people have been left untouched by the plight of desperate refugees trying to make it to Europe, and at the Venice Film Festival, actors and directors alike shared their distress over the crisis, pleading for tolerance and compassion. Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron, whose "Gravity" opened the 2013 Venice festival and won best director in the 2014 Oscars, set the stage on the festival's first day when he urged Europe to welcome the people flocking to its...

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