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.
The Swimming Lesson
DIRECTOR
Elizabeth Rodgers
RUN TIME
9 Minutes
LANGUAGE
English
YEAR
2018
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