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THE SWIMMERS – Review by Lois Alter Mark

December 27, 2022December 29, 2022 Lois Alter Mark biopic, Jack Thorne, Manal Issa, Nathalie Issa, Sally El Hosaini, syrian refugees, the swimmers, truth-based

At a time when the governors of Texas and Florida are callously using refugees as political pawns, The Swimmers is a must-watch movie that puts individual human faces to the staggering number of people escaping war-torn countries to find a safe place to live. Almost seven million Syrians have become refugees since 2011 when civil war broke out, and The Swimmers, which is based on a true story, solidly focuses on two of them while never losing sight of the rest.

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THE SWIMMERS – Review by Jennifer Green

November 11, 2022November 12, 2022 Jennifer Green Ali Suliman, Manal Issa, Nathalie Issa, Sally El Hosaini, Sara Mardini, Syria, the swimmers, Yusra Mardini

The Swimmers is an old-fashioned biopic, a roller coaster of emotions spread out over an unabashed 135 minutes. The storytelling forces viewers into the shoes of young refugees whose lives are torn apart by war and who in no way deserve the difficult twists of fate thrown at them. Whatever shortcomings viewers find with the film, the real-life story is impossible not to appreciate.