The read
It runs a compact 15m.
Synopsis
Olivia Martin McGuire (China Love) parallels a grandfather’s journey to safety during the Cultural Revolution with his granddaughter’s fight for freedom in Hong Kong today. Interweaving unflinching testimony of the elder’s exodus from the Chinese mainland, exquisitely animated recreations of the perilous escape to Hong Kong through land and sea, and vivid, evocative archival footage of both mid-20th-century China and the Hong Kong protests today, Freedom Swimmer emerges as a gripping and timely account of the struggle for survival across generations.
Ratings
TMDB6/10
3 audience votes
Key crew
- Agnès PatronDirector
- Olivia Martin-McGuireScreenplay
- Olivia Martin-McGuireDirector
Themes
human rightshuman rights protest