Freedom Swimmer
7.5
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.
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Agnès Patron Director · Olivia Martin-McGuire Director
First release August 14, 2021 · Produced in Australia, France, Hong Kong SAR China, United Kingdom · Languages Cantonese, English
Production
No Thing Productions
Production
Sacrebleu Productions
Production
Australia · France · Hong Kong SAR China · United Kingdom
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Languages
Original language
Cantonese
Spoken on screen
Cantonese · English
Release dates
Australia · August 14, 2021
Premiere · Melbourne International Film Festival
No release date listed for United States.
France
November 28, 2021 · TV · ARTE (Court-circuit)
Ukraine
September 22, 2022 · Theatrical
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