{"id":640,"date":"2025-08-15T00:40:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/?page_id=640"},"modified":"2025-08-23T12:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T10:27:08","slug":"avant-drag","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/en\/programm\/avant-drag\/","title":{"rendered":"Avant-Drag!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"640\" class=\"elementor elementor-640\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cf614a2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"cf614a2\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fdc483b elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"fdc483b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Av-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-801\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Av-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Av-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Av-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Av-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Av-18x10.jpg 18w, https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Av-1320x743.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Av.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-780550c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"780550c\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-520bd10 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"520bd10\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Avant-Drag<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"> follows ten drag artists in Athens who defy gender norms and challenge oppressive social structures. Through powerful performances, they reclaim public space, resist invisibility, and shape a uniquely Greek queer identity marked by history, politics, and state violence. \u201cThe ghosts of queer history do our makeup,\u201d says one, as the film weaves protest with poetry, rage with tenderness. In their world, drag infects gender, pushing it to its edges.<\/span><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"> Avant-Drag<\/span><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"> is resistance, beauty, and light after darkness.<\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Avant-Drag<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"> begleitet zehn Drag-K\u00fcnstler*innen in Athen, die Geschlechternormen und unterdr\u00fcckende soziale Strukturen herausfordern. Mit kraftvollen Performances erobern sie sich den \u00f6ffentlichen Raum zur\u00fcck, widersetzen sich dem Vergessen und formen eine eindeutig griechische queere Identit\u00e4t \u2013 gepr\u00e4gt von Geschichte, Politik und staatlicher Gewalt. \u201eDie Geister der queeren Geschichte schminken uns\u201c, sagt eine von ihnen. Der Film verwebt Protest mit Poesie, Wut mit Z\u00e4rtlichkeit. 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