32nd CT LGBTQ Film Festival: Canary (Kanarie)
Director: Christiaan Olwagen
South Africa, 120
Screenwriter: Charl-Johan Lingenfelder, Christiaan Olwagen.
Cast: Schalk Bezuidenhout, Hannes Otto, Germandt Geldenhuys.
This coming-of-age drama that will sing its way into your heart opens in 1986 South Africa, as small-town Johan is called up for compulsory military service at the age of 18.Happily, he is accepted into the military choir, the Canaries. At a time when religion oppresses individuality, and apartheid separates whites from blacks, Johan and the Canaries must survive promote both church and state during a national tour of duty. However, as Johan falls in love with a choir mate and begins to question everything he has been told about the world, he runs straight up against the intolerance of his commanding officers.
US Premiere
The Short preceding the feature is:
Delivery Boy
Dir. Hugo Kenzo, 2019, Hong Kong, 16 min, in English and Cantonese with English subtitles
ChunHo is a local delivery boy who falls in love with his favorite (and hot) customer Eric, an expat businessman living in Hong Kong. Yummy Chinese food and cheesy 70s music bring them together, but differences in their socioeconomic status eventually get in the way. Is the way to a man’s heart really through is stomach?
U.S. premiere!
