Flight of the Swan

Name: Flight of the Swan
Director: Ngozi Onwurah
Released: 1992-10-09
Duration: 11 min
Cast: Hilja Lindsay Parkinson, Wumni Olaiya, Charlotte Moore, Laura Penta, Rowena Meddeman

October 9, 1992

11m

Drama

Overview

A young girl leaves her Nigerian village to attend a ballet school in England. Fascinated by Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, she dreams of performing as lead ballerina Princess Odette, but the girls in her close-minded ballet school mock her ideas of a 'black swan'.