Avant-Drag! – Radical Performers Re-Imagine Athens

by Fil Ieropoulos
Ten different Athenian drag queens fabulously challenge social conventions while deconstructing gender, queerness and nationalism.
2024  ·  1h32m  ·  Greece
Greek
English subs
About the Film

Avant-Drag! offers an exhilarating look at ten Athenian drag performers who deconstruct gender, nationalism, belonging, identity, while facing police brutality, transphobia and racism. As entertaining as it is thought-provoking, Avant-Drag! challenges societal norms and reshapes perceptions about LGBTQ+ culture by capturing the intimate lives of a tightly-knit group of drag performers, proving that being othered never felt so familiar.

Upcoming Screenings
Editing
Fil Ieropoulos
Cinematography
Mihalis Gkatzogias
Music
Lykourgos Porfyris
Producer
Spyros Patsouras
Producer
Fil Ieropoulos
Scriptwriter
Foivos Dousos
Director of photography
Mihalis Gkatzogias
Music
Lykourgos Porfyris
Production company
FYTA Films
Cast
Kangela Tromokratisch
Cast
Er Libido
Cast
Lala Kolopi
Cast
Aurora Paola Morado
Cast
Parakatyanova
Cast
SerGay Parakatyanov
Cast
McMorai
Cast
Cotsos
Cast
Lala KolopI
Cast
Veronique Tromokratisch
Narrator
Marisha Triantafyllidou
About the Director

Fil Ieropoulos

Fil IEROPOULOS (1978, Greece) is a filmmaker, artist, curator and senior lecturer at Buckinghamshire New University where he teaches video art, film theory and animation. His first feature, queer sci-fi opera ORFEAS2021 (2021), premiered at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival where it competed for the Film Forward award, screened at film festivals in 14 countries and was nominated at the Hellenic Film Award. Avant-Drag! (2024) is his second feature film and will have its world premiere at IFFR 2024.

 
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