Olivia Martin-McGuire

Based on true events, Grace, her boyfriend Adam, and her younger sister, Lee, are on holiday in Northern Australia when they decide to take a tour down a river. As they drift into a swamp, their boat suddenly capsizes. Stranded in the flooded swamp, the three tourists must figure out what to do to survive as they realize they are being watched through the black water.

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.

A fascinating exploration of contemporary China through the pre-wedding photography industry – a billion-dollar fantasy world.

For ten years I have been sharing my life between the island of Reunion and France. In these incessant back and forth, I often feel like a dog in a watering can. There the boredom, here the lack of there. This film is my exploratory trip to the island and my desire to return there. This place becomes a central character, torn between its tangled and buried roots and its progressive Westernization since recent decades.