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.
Keywords: 1980s , apartheid , choir , gay-theme , homophobia , homosexuality , lgbt , male-homosexuality , military-choir , military-service , south-africa