The Swimmers

Sisters Yusra and Sarah Mardini fled their home country of Syria in 2015 when their house was destroyed during the civil war. They journeyed to Lebanon and then onto Turkey where they arranged to be smuggled into Greece on a dinghy. However, the refugees were in the middle of the Aegean Sea when the engine of the overcrowded dinghy cut out and the pair, plus two others who could swim, were responsible for saving the lives of those on board. Just a year after their harrowing experience Yusra comp..

Director: Sally El Hosaini,

Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport,

Cast: Matthias Schweighöfer, Ali Suliman, James Krishna Floyd, Ahmed Malek, Manal Issa, Dritan Kastrati, Mudar Abbara, Alfredo Tavares, Roderick Hill, Joelle Koissi, Nathalie Issa, Daniel Eghan, Fernando Piloni, Bridgitta Roy, Balázs Csémy, Elmi Rashid Elmi, Aso Sherabayani, Kinda Alloush, Yao Chin, Victoria Valcheva, Metin Hassan, Izzy Eadie, Nahel Tzegai, Akuc Bol, Christian Di Sciullo, Zoltan Rencsar, Isabella Charlotta Poppius, Ekran Mustafa, Sue King-Spear, Mehmet Tas,