Avant-Drag! (2024)
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.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
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| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | el |
| Popularity | 2.222 |
Directed By
Fil Ieropoulos
Crew
Foivos Dousos
Fil Ieropoulos
Mihalis Gkatzogias
Spyros Patsouras
Aggelos Charalampous
Foivos Dousos
Alex Demetriou
Maritina Tselepi
Soni Papadopoulos
Eleni Lazaridi
Nikos Manolis
Petros Antoniou
Aggelos Charalampous
Andreas Kleanthous
Vasilis Papavarsamis
Petros Touloudis
Alex Kat
Katerina Koukoutsaki
Nefeli Tsigkeli
Christos Adrianopoulos
Fil Ieropoulos
Pantelis Pilavios
Nefeli Dakozoudi
Kristof
Kravvaritis Giorgos
Christos Sakellariou
Nikos Kostaras
Alexandros Drosos
capette
Gabriela Obiala
Lykourgos Porfyris
Petros Antoniou
Sebastian Strakowicz
Dimitris Manousiakis
Spyros Patsouras
capétte
TOP CAST
Marissa Triantafyllidou
Narrator
Lala Kolopi
Self
ER Libido
Self
Aurora Paola Morado
Self
Thanasis McMorait
Self
Parakatyanova
Self
SerGay Parakatyanov
Self
SerGay Parakatyanov
Self
Lia Smaragda
Cotsos
Zak Kostopoulos
Himself (Archive Footage)
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