Queendom

Agniia Galdanova / USA, France / 2023 / 98 min / English subtitles

Wednesday October 4 at 18.00, Bio Aspen, Hägerstensvägen 100A

Gena is a 21 year old queer artist from a small town in Russia. Dressed in otherworldly costumes, she stages radical performances in supermarkets, metro stations and in the middle of Moscow streets in an alternative protest against the way LGBTQ+ people are treated in Putin’s extremely conservative Russia. With never-failing support from her grandmother, she acts out all the creatures that live inside her through her spectacular costumes, which she often makes out of tape and junk.

Moving between documentary and science-fiction, Queendom is a glimpse into Gena’s inner universe as well as the struggle between an old and a young Russia.