The Freediver is a film about a female free diver. Set in Greece, a talented girl is brought to for training to an island where she finds love, danger, madness and her ambitions fulfilled.

As well as providing the subject for Luc Besson’s The Big Blue, Jacques Mayol did more than anyone to establish the sport of free diving to enormous depths without an oxygen supply. Using breathing techniques derived from yoga, he went to 50, 60, and even 100 meters—depths no one had considered to be within the bounds of human possibility. Mayol was a sportsman, a mystic, a vagabond, but above all, a man who believed in testing the limits of experience. This visually stunning tribute shows a man’s quest to be at one with the vastness of the ocean and to have no fear of the abyss within, where lurks serenity, freedom and finally, death.

A person comes into contact with quietness.

A portrait of free diver Kathryn Nevatt, former World Champion and current New Zealand record holder in all three disciplines.