Welcome to Chechnya
2020 · Documentary · 107 min. · United States
This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ pogrom raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Since 2016, 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 of the violence, a vast and secretive network of activists takes matters into its own hands.
Direction David France
Soundtrack Evgueni Galperine · Sacha Galperine
Screenplay David France · Tyler H. Walk
Cinematography Askold Kurov · Derek Wiesehahn
Original title Welcome to Chechnya
7.3
245 votes (FilmAffinity)
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