Flight of the Swan (1992)

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'.

Released Oct. 9, 1992 11 min 11+

Genres: Drama, Short

Keywords: tmdb.dance, tmdb.bullying, tmdb.racism, tmdb.woman-director, mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.ballet, imdb.swan-lake + 6 more, imdb.classical-music, imdb.ballerina, imdb.dance, imdb.prejudice, imdb.black-person, imdb.independent-film