Beauty and the Lawyer

Hasmik is a lawyer who fights for LGBTIQA+ rights, her husband appears in the media as drag performer Carabina, does sex work and makes his life in a queer-phobic environment the subject of an autobiographical theatre performance. The film, which evolved out of close friendship and is always one step behind the wild energy of Garik/Carabina, takes a precarious, raw, but also utopian-tinted look at current social struggles. The longing for normality, emancipation and responsibility finds themselves exposed – sometimes powerless and unprotected – to violent defamation. (Jan Künemund, DOK Leipzig)