WHO’S IN IT?
Nathalie Issa (My Favourite Fabric), Manal Issa (Parisienne), Ahmed Malek (Clash), Matthias Schweighöfer (Army of Thieves), James Floyd (My Brother the Devil), Ali Suliman (Paradise Now), Kinda Alloush (Excuse My French), Elmi Rashid Elmi (Dune)
WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?
Sally El Hosaini (My Brother the Devil), director, writer; Jack Thorne (The Aeronauts), writer; Tim Bevan (Atonement), Tim Cole (Wild Bill), Eric Fellner (Love Actually) and Ali Jaafar (King of Thieves), producers; Steven Price (Gravity), composer; Christopher Ross (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie), cinematographer; Iain Kitching (My Brother the Devil), editor
WHAT’S IT ABOUT?
In 2015, sisters Yusra (Issa) and Sara Mardini (Issa) flee their war-torn country of Syria, and are placed on a small dinghy with other refugees headed across the Aegean Sea towards Greece. However, when fate threatens the lives of everyone in the dinghy, the sisters lead an effort to swim the boat and its overcrowded passengers to safety, an act that would prove vital for Yusra as she later trains for the Olympics…
IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?
The unbelievable true story of Yusra and Sara Mardini’s migration from Syria to Greece, where the former would later train for the Olympics, is the subject of this tense but life-affirming drama.
WHEN’S IT OUT?
WEDNESDAY 23RD NOVEMBER 2022
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?
STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX
