Face it, nobody on Earth gives a hoot about the Moon. Every time he comes out to say “hi”, we all shout “boring!” and head off to sleep. Well guess what, pal… He’s sick of it. Join Moon as he sets off on an odyssey across the solar system in search of a planet that will appreciate him for who he is and give him the respect he deserves.
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.