#yusra mardini
Welsh-Egyptian Filmmaker Sally El Hosaini has begun directing The Swimmers, a feature film produced by Netflix and Working Title about Syrian refugee sisters Yusra and Sarah Mardini. The Swimmers follows the story of Yusra and Sarah and retells their journey after fleeing Syria in 2015 during the Syrian Civil War. Going through Lebanon and Turkey, the sisters were supposed to take a dinghy to Greece via dinghy, but the motor of the overcrowded vessel broke in the midst of the Aegean Sea. Yusra,…
