Director: Justin Anderson
Something is wrong the moment a naked stranger surfaces in the villa pool, and Swimming Home spends the rest of its 99 minutes finding out what.
What is Swimming Home about?
Joe and Isabel are supposed to be on a restorative holiday in Greece, but their marriage is already coming apart at the seams when Kitti, a woman found floating in their pool, is invited to move into the guest room instead of being sent on her way. Kitti has odd habits, including gathering and eating plants most people would know to avoid, and she quickly becomes fixated on the couple's teenage daughter Nina, who in turn is drawn to her in ways her parents don't notice until it's too late to easily undo. The film treats the villa as a pressure cooker, where a family's unspoken problems get pulled to the surface by an outsider who seems to have wandered in from somewhere else entirely, and it never fully answers whether Kitti is a threat, a symptom, or an odd kind of cure.
Cast & crew
Mackenzie Davis and Christopher Abbott play Isabel and Joe, the couple whose holiday unravels around them, with Ariane Labed as Kitti and Freya Hannan-Mills as their daughter Nina. Nadine Labaki, the acclaimed Lebanese director and actress, appears in a supporting role, alongside Tzef Montana and Michalis Goumas rounding out the villa's cast of neighbors and hangers-on.
Context & significance
Director Justin Anderson adapts Deborah Levy's Booker-shortlisted novel of the same name for his feature debut, working with a co-production spanning Brazil, Greece, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The source novel is known for blending dark comedy with domestic unease, and the film carries that tonal balance over to the screen, letting scenes of family bickering and sunlit Greek scenery sit right next to moments that feel closer to a slow-building psychological drama.
Where & how to watch
Swimming Home streams on K-Time with a free account login; there's no separate purchase needed to open the page or explore related titles in the catalog. K-Time's Farsi-language interface and Persian-speaking support team make international festival films like this one easy to find for Iranian diaspora viewers alongside Persian-language shows and channels.