Queendom

In a small Russian village, we meet Gena Marvin, a queer artist and activist who opposes discrimination and marginalisation with her painfully radical performances. The documentary portrays Gena's everyday life between intimate family gatherings and life-threatening protest actions on Moscow's streets, in which Gena does not use words to protest against the Russian government, but instead turns her body into a threatening "weapon" in ever new stylisations. The nightmarish drag looks in which Gena performs often consist of found materials and rubbish, held together by adhesive tape and the unconditional desire for social change - indeed acceptance.