Avant-Drag!

May 23, 2024

1h 32m

★ 7.2

Overview

Avant-Drag! paints portraits of ten drag artists of varying gender expressions and sexualities who take to the streets of Athens to query, problematise and (yes, please!) undermine social strictures. Employing wildly imagined personas – like riot housewives and Albanian turbo-folk girls – who perform acts as revolutionary as praising abortion and as charming as drawing childish pictures, these artists call for social justice by taking aim at conservatism, patriarchy, patriotism, racism and sexism.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

FYTA Films

Frenel

Greek Film Centre

Avant-Drag! Trailers

Cast

Narrator

Marissa Triantafyllidou

Self

Veronique Tromokratisch

Self

Kangela Tromokratisch

Self

Lala Kolopi

Self

ER Libido

Self

Aurora Paola Morado

Self

Thanasis McMorait

Self

Parakatyanova

Self

SerGay Parakatyanov

Self

SerGay Parakatyanov

Cotsos

Lia Smaragda

Self

Cruella Tromokratisch

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