The Swimming Lesson

DIRECTOR

Elizabeth Rodgers

RUN TIME

9 Minutes

LANGUAGE

English

YEAR

2018

Country

USA

English Subtitles

No

Genre

Comedy, Drama, Short

Cast

Samara Alsalim, Lisa King Hawkes, Noor Ali, Constancia Roark, Neekey Habibi

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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