The Yoko Situation
Swan, coming soon. Polaroid-style photograph of two smiling people in a grassy field, bundled in coats and scarves, one wearing a cap. “Coming soon!” is handwritten beneath.

Swan

2027 · SHORT FILM · DIGITAL · IN POST-PRODUCTION
A beautiful day for somebody else’s love story.

On her wedding day, Molly finds her best friend Lyra alone by a pond. Away from the celebrations, familiar teasing betrays an attraction neither woman has ever acknowledged.

Set in the Devon countryside, 'Swan' is a tender, irreverent short about unspoken queer love and the strange grief of a romance that never quite happened. Beneath the barbed humour, two women struggle to acknowledge what they want from each other on a day when everything is supposed to be decided.

BEHIND THE SCENES

Behind the scenes of Swan, photographed on film. Three people sit in a small, bright room beneath a shelf of books. One woman in her early 30s gestures while holding a mug, another in her 20s listens in a colourful patterned shirt and jeans. A man sits beside the open doorway, looking into the camera with an expression of mock surprise, bags by his feet.
Behind the scenes of Swan, photographed on film. Two people sit beside each other at the end of a weathered wooden jetty, their backs to the camera. One wears a strapless wedding dress and the other a colourful backless dress. Reeds and dense greenery surround the water.
Behind the scenes of Swan, photographed on film. A person in his early 40s wearing a pink bandana and an open pale shirt sits among equipment bags in tall grass. A microphone with a furry windshield rests beside them, with a green hillside and trees beyond.

CAST

Lyra Maya Pillay
Molly Rachel Sims

CREW

Directed by Penn Bálint
Written by Maya Pillay & Sam Parker
Produced by Maya Pillay & Penn Bálint
Director of photography Ben Tallamy
Assistant Camera Adam Sweetman
Sound Recordist Luke Jeffery
Edited by Penn Bálint & Luke Jeffery
Original score by Sarolta Szécsi

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