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.

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Editing

Fil Ieropoulos

Cinematography

Mihalis Gkatzogias

Music

Lykourgos Porfyris

Producer

Spyros Patsouras

Producer

Sebastian Strakowicz

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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