Welcome to Chechnya
Welcome to Chechnya
dir. David France
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United States
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2020
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107 min
venue
date
time
available
Atlantic, B
2025-05-11
20:30
With searing urgency, “Welcome to Chechnya” shadows a group of activists who risk unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ pogrom raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic.
Since 2017, Chechnya’s tyrannical leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, has waged a depraved operation to “cleanse the blood” of LGBTQ Chechens, overseeing a government-directed campaign to detain, torture and execute them. With no help from the Kremlin and only faint global condemnation, activists take matters into their own hands. In his new documentary, David France uses a remarkable approach to anonymity to expose this atrocity and to tell the story of an extraordinary group of people confronting evil.
- duration:
- 107 min
- country / year of production:
- United States / 2020
- director:
- David France
- cinematography:
- Askold Kurow, Derek Wiesehahn
- production:
- Alice Henty, Joy A. Tomchin, Askold Kurow, David France / Public Square Films
- selected festivals and awards:
- 2020 – FF Sundance, 2020 – IFF Berlin, 2020 – CPH:DOX Copenhagen, 2020 – Hot Docs Toronto, 2020 – IFF Thessaloniki
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