Freedom Swimmer
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.
Storyline
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.
Recommended
Who Are You, Charlie Brown?
2021
To Be Takei
2014
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear
2022
Roger Waters: Us + Them
2019
South of the Border
2009
Deliver Us from Evil
2006
Night Will Fall
2014
Fuck
2006
Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey
2014
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013
Girl Rising
2013
Avatar Spirits
2010
More Like This
Lines
2021
Spectrum
2016
Parasisi
2026
Hijos de África
2023
Caos de tránsito
2018
Homebound
2022
Stunned, I Remain Alert
2020
Chauka, Please Tell Us The Time
2017
Poland 1939: When German Soldiers Became War Criminals
2019
The Kartli Kingdom
2025
A Place of Absence
2025
Persona Non Grata
2003