Sally El Hosaini accepts the TIFF Tribute Emerging Talent Award: “Making films is a privilege but it’s also a responsibility, and in a world that desperately needs empathy, I hope that TheSwimmers increases it just a little bit.”
,” you could be excused for thinking that Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini won an Olympic gold medal. She didn’t. That’s not to detract from everything she and her older sister, Sara, went through to escape the Syrian civil war and reclaim their dreams of competitive swimming.
What El Hosaini shows happening there in the film’s climactic moments is the result of Mardini’s first heat, which qualified her — as one of the inaugural members of the special Refugee Olympic Team — to compete. None of this is anywhere near as engaging as how Yusra, who had always dreamed of swimming for Syria, wound up on a completely different continent, training for a German coach.
A few years pass in a flash, and El Hosaini picks up at another party, this one at a rooftop nightclub, where Sara and Yusra dance to “Titanium” while Assad’s rockets light up the sky in the background . The song serves as a kind of anthem for the girls, who will hear it again while swimming alongside a sinking vessel in their Aegean Sea crossing.
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