Trailer not available yet
Movie
Canary
Kanarie
65%
Audience score21 votes on TMDB
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.
- Director
- Christiaan Olwagen
- Screenplay
- Charl-Johan Lingenfelder
- Screenplay
- Christiaan Olwagen
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 26/08/2018
- Original language
- Afrikaans
Main cast


















Images





You may also like
86%
Michael
2026
55%
9 Songs
2004
84%
Whiplash: Música y Obsesión
2014
72%
The Idea of You
2024
81%
Soul
2020
79%
Bohemian Rhapsody
2018
75%
Nace Una Estrella
2018
57%
Mother Mary
2026
71%
8 Mile: Calle de ilusiones
2002
79%
CODA: Señales del corazón
2021
72%
No se desea buena suerte
2026
77%
The Chorus
2004
#homophobia#choir#south africa#apartheid#military service#male homosexuality#lgbt#1980s#military choir#gay theme#homosexuality