Lunar Sway
Director: Nick Butler
Canada, 2025, 98 min
Shooting Format:Digital
Festival Year:2026
Category:Narrative Feature
Genres:Comedy, Drama, Romance, LGBTQ, Con Artist
Cast:Noah Parker, Liza Weil, Grace Glowicki, Douglas Smith, Kaden Connors, Andy Yu
Crew:Writer: Nick Butler. Producers: Nick Butler, Jennifer Wrede, Lucas Meeuse. Cinematographer: Dmitry Lopatin; Costume Designer: Cheslea Preston; Production Designer: Joshua Turpin; Composer: Adrian Ellis, Walker Grimshaw
Email:nick@cloudypicturesinc.com
Synopsis
Cliff is a young man looking for love in all the wrong places in a small desert town. When his birth mother, Marg, arrives unexpectedly they start to connect. But her secrets soon catch up with them.
Trailer
About the director
Nick Butler is a New York-based, Canadian filmmaker whose feature film debut The Legacy of Cloudy Falls received a select theatrical release in 2025 and is now available on VOD, DVD and Blu-Ray in North America. His second feature, Lunar Sway is being released in 2026. His short films have screened at over thirty international film festivals and he also has extensive casting experience across a wide range of film and TV projects.
Filmmaker's note
I wrote Lunar Sway while deep in the throws of an unrequited love situation. I'd had the basic premise in mind for many years but had always pictured a very different version of the movie. One that didn't feel like mine to tell. But as I found myself looking for love in all the wrong places, the concept kept coming back to me. This time, I imagined a very different take on the story. One set in a remote desert town populated with eccentric misfits. Something about the moody setting captured all the chaos and absurdity swirling inside me at the time and it went from being a premise in the back of my mind to a movie I knew I had to make.