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Check It Out—The Swimmers 

THE SWIMMERS Trailer (2022)

The Swimmers is a powerful film about migrants that takes you inside the terror that is right now being experienced by 117.2 million people around the globe who are forced to leave their countries of origin and set out on perilous journeys in search of some kind refuge. 

It follows the real-life story of two sisters, ages 17 and 20, who escaped from Syria as the country was being torn apart by civil war and went on a harrowing journey to reach Europe. The sisters came from a middle class life in Syria and were in training to become Olympic swimmers. But as the situation inside the country became increasingly dire, with friends around them being killed and troops occupying and menacing the city, the sisters devised a plan to escape to Germany to claim asylum and then have the rest of their family join them.  

Their journey brings them together with people from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Somalia and other countries, and one of the powerful things about the film is the bonds and community that form among these people, all coming from widely different circumstances but thrown together and fighting to survive. As you follow the sisters on their journey, you experience the horrific choices immigrants face and the whole elaborate system of trafficking which profits off of the misery of millions of people driven from their countries by wars, climate change and other factors caused by imperialist domination of the planet. And they reach their destination only to face the utter inhumanity and anti-immigrant hatred which awaits them in Europe. 

The film is very well acted and gets inside the lives and struggles of the sisters and their family—and the heroism and trauma of their journey. But while focused on the particular story of these women, it also paints a more universal picture of the hellish reality facing millions and millions of people being forcibly uprooted and driven across the oceans, deserts and jungles of this planet and searching for some kind of life fit for human beings. The outrage and criminality of this whole situation—for which this capitalist-imperialist system has no solution—screams out loud and clear. 

The film is available on Netflix. Watch the trailer here.

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