{"id":12365,"date":"2022-09-04T10:58:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T14:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=12365"},"modified":"2023-12-12T06:13:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T11:13:51","slug":"the-swimmers-official-teaser-netflix-two-syrian-sisters-who-flee-their-war-torn-home-in-damascus-to-rio-olympic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=12365","title":{"rendered":"The Swimmers | Official Teaser | Netflix \/ Two Syrian Sisters Who Flee Their War-Torn Home in Damascus to Rio Olympic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix has unveiled a new trailer for \u201c<strong>The Swimmers<\/strong>,\u201d which is\u00a0set around two Syrian sisters who flee their war-torn home in Damascus, swim for hours in waves beating Mediterranean seas to reach Greece as asylum seekers before going on to compete at the Rio Olympic Games in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The trailer for &#8220;<strong>The Swimmers&#8221;<\/strong> reveals a three<span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>important structure for story of Yusra Mardini (Nathalie Issa) and Sara Mardini (Manal Issa): their training and competing days in civil war Syria, their daunting experience in a lifeboat with a group of people who fled the country with them, and Yusra&#8217;s winning round at the 2016 Olympics in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12367\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/The-Swimmers1-1024x673.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/The-Swimmers1-1024x673.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/The-Swimmers1-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/The-Swimmers1-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/The-Swimmers1-1536x1010.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/The-Swimmers1-696x457.jpg 696w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/The-Swimmers1-1068x702.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/The-Swimmers1-639x420.jpg 639w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/The-Swimmers1-741x486.jpg 741w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/The-Swimmers1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The film is directed by Sally El Hosaini, the filmmaker earned international fame in 2012 after also writing and directing a story about siblings in \u201c<i><strong>My Brother The Devil<\/strong>.\u201d<\/i><span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0S<\/span>creenplay by Jack Thorne and Sally El Hosaini, who draws inspiration from Mardini\u2019s own autobiography, \u201c<i>Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian &#8211; My Story of Rescue, Hope, and Triumph.\u201d P<\/i>roduced Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Tim Cole, Ali Jaafar as well as executive produced by Stephen Daldry, Katherine Pomfret, Tilly Coulson.<span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Besides the strong performance from Nathalie Issa (Yusra), Manal Issa (Sara), the film also boasting the cast of Matthias Schweigh\u00f6fer (Sven), Ahmed Malek (Nizar), James Krishna Floyd (Emad), Nahel Tzegai (Shada) and Kinda Alloush (Mervat) with Ali Suliman (Ezzat).<span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>The Swimmers<\/strong>&#8221; is consider to be one of the biggest Oscar hopeful for\u00a0<span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\">Netflix&#8217;s films.\u00a0<\/span>The film, shot across UK, Belgium, and Turkey in 2021, is set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival<span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>on September 8th, Netflix premieres<span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0&#8220;<\/span><strong><i>The Swimmers&#8221;<\/i><\/strong><span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>on November 26.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12368\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12368\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12368\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/The-Swimmers3-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/The-Swimmers3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/The-Swimmers3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/The-Swimmers3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/The-Swimmers3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/The-Swimmers3-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/The-Swimmers3-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/The-Swimmers3-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/The-Swimmers3.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Swimmers. 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