Cold Refuge
Directed by Judy Irving2023 79mDocumentary
7.7
Cold Refuge is about the physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of full immersion in the natural world: how, though it may seem counter-intuitive, swimming in cold water helps mitigate some of life’s most serious challenges. The film’s diverse film subjects include a wheelchair-bound, paralyzed swimmer who faces fear by diving off a high pier; a Black man who was told by whites when he was 13 that “Black people don’t swim” (it took him 30 years to try); a blind man who tethers himself to a sighted swimmer; a woman with aggressive breast cancer who “swims to chemo;” a lawyer who reduces courtroom stress in the open water; and a young woman who communes with her late mother in San Francisco Bay, where they both swam together. Along with swimmers’ stories of adversity and resilience, the film’s marine mammals, birds, artwork, and a variety of open-water locations create a visual meditation on what it means to escape our abstract digital world in favor of what’s real.
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Cold Refuge was released on April 16, 2023.
Cold Refuge was directed by Judy Irving.
Cold Refuge has a runtime of 79m.
Cold Refuge was produced by Judy Irving.
The key characters in Cold Refuge are Self (Myles Cope), Self (Naji Ali), Self (Corvin Bazgan).
Cold Refuge is a Documentary film.
Cold Refuge has an audience rating of 7.7 out of 10.