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.
FYTA Films, Frenel
Albanian, Greek, English, Russian
Marissa Triantafyllidou
Narrator
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
Self
Lia Smaragda
Cotsos
Cruella Tromokratisch
Self
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