Swimming the Rock
A man overcomes his grief by swimming to shore from Alcatraz.
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A man overcomes his grief by swimming to shore from Alcatraz.
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
The film was made in a period of three weeks in the summer of 1989. It starts in a youth hostel somewhere in the mountains where Oki has a temporary job and continues in the outer suburbs of Osaka. A short silent film th
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.
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
In the sparsely populated rural areas of Japan, the female population is far smaller than the male. An attempt is made to counter this imbalance by arranging marriages with Filipino women. Fey, a young Filipina, came as
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
A man gets a brand new private swimming pool in order to spend some relaxing time
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
Swimming in Nebraska
After missing bronze by 1/100th of a second at the 2016 Paralympic Games, Austin-based swimmer Lizzi Smith shares an intimate story of how changing her self-perception didn’t just bring her back to the pool: it’s bringin
James Pittar is blind. He is also a long distance swimmer. In his amazing career he has swum across the English channel and taken on sharks and oil tankers. He is about to embark on a 48 kilometre swim around Manhatten I
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
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
Tommy Joe Williams and Steve Brady go to a secluded riverside pool high in the Oregon mountains where fun and gaiety are the theme.
Swimming with Lesbians explores an upstate New York community's efforts to create an LGBT historic archive-led by the extraordinary Madeline Davis.
My ED in Creative Practice year 1 FMP about the community and nostalgia surrounding outdoor swimming pools.
'Swimming in It' is a parody of an advert that shines a light on the state of the constant excessive discharge of sewage into our seas, rivers and lakes by big water companies in the UK. With consumer's bills increasing
Swimming with dolphins has long been proved to be beneficial to those with longterm illnesses. However if you are English and on a budget, Hartcliff Community Centre has an alternative approach: swimming with pigs.