IMSEE Director, Lionel Galfré: not just another statistic

At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, I attended the Marché Du Film’s “Refugee Voices in Film”, a collaboration between the Monaco-based International Emerging Film Talent Association (IEFTA) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The keynote address from Vincent Cochetel, UNHCR’s Director for the Bureau of Europe, set the tone: “Europe is trying to understand what happened last year. It’s like a hangover. You wake up and there are one million displaced people.” But Mr Cochetel underlined the need to understand that a million migrants means a million … Continue reading IMSEE Director, Lionel Galfré: not just another statistic