Yusra and Sara Mardini saved a boatful of fellow asylum seekers from drowning in the Aegean Sea. Now Netflix's 'The Swimmers' tells their story.
The Swimmers: Directed by Sally El Hosaini. With Nathalie Issa, Manal Issa, Matthias Schweighöfer, Ahmed Malek. From war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, two young sisters embark on a …
Both adversity and triumph are in abundant supply in Sally El Hosaini’s The Swimmers, an undeniably powerful if inescapably episodic drama chronicling the harrowing, real-life flight taken …
In most movies, an emotional triumph at the Olympics would be the principal goal for a protagonist. In “The Swimmers,” it’s more of a secondary swell. The film dramatizes the story of the …
Not all heroes wear capes, some wear swimming caps – and The Swimmers is an empowering reminder that it is a human right to live safely, no matter where you come from.
At the end of “ The Swimmers,” you could be excused for thinking that Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini won an Olympic gold medal. She didn’t. That’s not to detract from everything she and …
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