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‘Long Distance Swimmer: Sara Mardini’
Their journey
made headlines around the world, and is dramatized in Netflix film “The Swimmers,” which opened
Sara spent
three years volunteering to save refugees on the same journey that made her so famous,
2018, accused
by Greek authorities of running a criminal enterprise with charges including “international espionage and people smuggling
” If convicted,
she faces up to 25 years in prison and the end of her humanitarian career
Shot over
three years, the film follows Sara’s fight for justice and journey of self-discovery
Franziska von
Berlepsch served as editor and story consultant and Zamarin Wahdat as DoP
The film
is produced by DOCDAYS Productions and Safe Passage in co-production with SWR and in collaboration
It
is funded by MOIN Filmstiftung and the Malik Bendjelloul Memorial Fund
Executive producers
include Antje Boehmert, Anna von Dziembowska, Daniel Druhora and Drake Burnette
Commissioning editors
for SWR are Gudrun Hanke-El Ghomri, Bernd Seidl and Simone Reuter
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