The Swimming Lesson
DIRECTOR
Elizabeth Rodgers
RUN TIME
9 Minutes
LANGUAGE
English
YEAR
2018
Previous
Next
COUNTRY
USA
GENRE
Comedy, Drama, Short
CAST
Samara Alsalim, Lisa King Hawkes, Noor Ali, Constancia Roark, Neekey Habibi
ENGLISH SUBTITLES
No
Classification
No age restrictions
SYNOPSIS
Based on a true story, teenage, Muslim refugee girls in burkinis take a fantastical swimming lesson in Idaho. The initiative for swimming lessons began after a newly arrived refugee, a Congolese boy, drowned in the summer of 2017.
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