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.

Schalk Bezuidenhout
as Johan Niemand

Hannes Otto
as Wolfgang Müller

Germandt Geldenhuys
as Ludolf Otterman

Gérard Rudolf
as Reverend Koch

Jacques Bessenger
as Reverend Engelbrecht

Francois Jacobs
as Tiaan Taljaard

De Klerk Oelofse
as Walter "Rambo" Boonzaaier

Ludwig Binge
as Daan Goosen

David Viviers
as Kevin Scott

Andrico Goosen
as Ruan "Lobster" Swart