The Swimmers (2022) | DeBartolo Performing Arts Heart

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Browning Cinema

Films to Talk About
Directed by Sally El Hosaini
With Nathalie Issa, Manal Issa, Ahmed Malek
Rated PG-13, 134 minutes, DCP
In English and Arabic with English subtitles
Panel dialogue to comply with!

A scene many dad and mom and children know nicely: a youth swimming competitors that pulls collectively striving athletes and the households who cheer them on. Here, although, the competitors is in Syria, and bombs are exploding actually each inside and outside the sports activities facility. The juxtaposition between childhood sports activities and warfare is one usually used for instance misplaced innocence, and The Swimmers strikes that style ahead by telling the true story of Yusra Mardini, whose drive to compete within the Olympics pushes her and her sister out of Syria. At the cross-section of a biopic and the refugee expertise, The Swimmers additionally permits for an expertise to replicate on pressured willpower, success, and the fallout of state violence.

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Co-presented by Neighbor 2 Neighbor.