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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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Top billed cast

Marissa TriantafyllidouNarrator
Veronique TromokratischSelf
Kangela TromokratischSelf
Lala KolopiSelf
ER LibidoSelf
Aurora Paola MoradoSelf
Thanasis McMoraitSelf
ParakatyanovaSelf
SerGay ParakatyanovSelf
SerGay ParakatyanovSelf

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