Swimming Lesson

2021 | narrative short | 5 min
by Vardit Goldner
SUMMARY

A mockumentary film in which Bedouin girls are taught to swim in a waterless “pool”, ‘Swimming Lesson’ aims to stimulate thought about the lack of swimming pools accessible to Bedouins in Israel, actually denying them swimming lessons and causing frequent cases of drowning. There are over 200,000 Arab-Bedouins living in the Negev region of Israel today, with access to one single swimming pool that was inaugurated in the town of Rahat in 2017. Bedouins are not allowed to enter swimming pools in Jewish localities.

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