Kanarie (2018)

Kanarie (Afrikaans for ‘Canary’) is a coming-of-age musical war drama. Drafted into the South African army during apartheid, a young soldier joins the military’s traveling choir, and romance on the battlefield causes him to deal with his long-repressed sexual identity through hardship, camaraderie, first love, and the liberating freedom of music, the true self can be discovered.

• 1980s
• apartheid
• choir
• gay
• homophobia
• homosexuality
• lgbt
• male homosexuality
• military choir
• military service
• south africa