Two friends who had never rowed in their lives decided to cross the entire Indian Ocean in a secondhand boat. Nobody thought they'd make it. And Then We Swam tells their true story, until, 116 gruelling days in and just five miles from the finish line off the coast of Mauritius, everything started to go wrong. Astonishing, funny, and nerve-wracking. An ocean epic you won't believe is real.

Why This Film Matters: Crossing an ocean by human power is also an intimate encounter with its vastness, its power, and its fragility, a perspective few of us ever gain. Beyond the sheer audacity of the attempt, And Then We Swam connects to a growing awareness of the seas that cover our planet, of how much we ask of them, and how little we truly know them.