ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke with The Swimmers director Sally El Hosaini and the subject of the film Yusra Mardini about the importance of telling this true story through Netflix. The ...

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Yusra Mardini stepped on a plane back to Germany for the holidays overwhelmed by emotion. News had just filtered through from Syria of the overthrow of the country’s longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad.

Yusra Mardini made headlines in 2016 when she competed in the Rio Olympics for the Refugee Olympic Team (ROT), and now filmmaker Sally El Hosaini is telling the story of how Mardini and her sister ...

The Swimmers is based on the real-life experiences of the Mardini sisters, who were forced to leave their home in Syria in 2015 because of the civil war. They traveled to Germany via Lebanon, Turkey ...

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New Netflix film, The Swimmers, tells the remarkable tale of Yusra Mardini, a young Syrian refugee and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, who escaped conflict and went on to compete in two Olympics. “This is ...

The Swimmers, on Netflix November 23rd, is based on the harrowing true story of two sisters with Olympic dreams, forced to flee their home in war-torn Syria and become refugees. Real-life sisters ...

GENEVA – Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini, a Syrian who fled across the Mediterranean, was today appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and pledged to work harder to inspire ...

Around 60 students attended a screening of “The Swimmers” with the movie’s subject and Olympian Yusra Mardini on Nov. 15. UCLA’s Southwest Asian/North African Health Alliance, Students Organize for ...