Swimming Lesson
While Mrs. Jacobs gives swimming lessons to the young caregiver Nadja in her retirement home, the two develop a quiet attraction to each other. Even though the old woman secretly longs for it, she struggles with social v
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While Mrs. Jacobs gives swimming lessons to the young caregiver Nadja in her retirement home, the two develop a quiet attraction to each other. Even though the old woman secretly longs for it, she struggles with social v
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 summe
Swimming in Nebraska
Drenched in the heat, spirit and landscape of South Florida, Swimming in Your Skin Again celebrates the spiritual feminine and coming of age. Guided by female inspirations we tour the ritual anchorages of life in and aro
Forough is a wealthy woman who owns several restaurants and her economic class makes her marry a man who is ten years younger than her. When Forough's niece enters the story, that changes...
The first sequence of About Swimming is significant. Immersed in a pool, Dominique, an open water swimmer, performs an automatic routine that is nevertheless executed with care, elegance, and discipline. Her career is on
The documentary film Halli addresses body-related commentary and its impact on people's body image. Anonymous stories are set in a swimming hall, where we see a variety of body types. Finnish swimming hall culture respec
Floating between conceptual documentary and experimental fiction, this film chronicles the 25,000 metres that Thomson swam during the period of her mother’s death. An adaptation of her book, it uses dance, music and memo
When a swimmer becomes famous for his epic and social commitment: the story of Leo Callone, swimmer able to cross the English channel, to travel around the world twice and builds a hospital in Guatemala in memory of his
Young and imaginative Leila is ready to do anything to escape the boredom of everyday life with her father. Her new boyfriend seems to be the key to evasion, but she will soon discover that her fantasies are not just sha
If you happen to be transgender and you want to go swimming, which changing room do you go into? In this short documentary we meet a group of trans activists who have taken matters into their own hands and set up a safe
A man overcomes his grief by swimming to shore from Alcatraz.
Beneath the fury of Ferguson unrest, an affable professor dedicates his life to actionable, peaceful change while attempting the grueling triple crown of ultra-marathon swimming.
Trick photography techniques like slow motion, repetition and reverse photography combine with some amazing stunts to make this more than just a demonstration film. Part of a series of sports films made in 1926, Sport &
Tommy Joe Williams and Steve Brady go to a secluded riverside pool high in the Oregon mountains where fun and gaiety are the theme.
It is obvious that the cameraman placed his equipment close to the edge of a seashore. A large number of children followed by bathers can be seen running into the surf from behind the camera position. Close to the end, t
Aloysious spends his time making models, it’s a way for him to remember the places he visits. He and his sister Sanya return to the mountains where they spent their childhood, but nothing seems the same. Has the mounta
A documentary that follows a local high school band, from creation to playing at venues.