Welcome to Chechnya

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Original title: Welcome to Chechnya
Year: 2020
Running time: 107 min.
Country: United States
Director: David France
Music: Evgueni Galperine, Sacha Galperine
Cinematography: Askold Kurov, Derek Wiesehahn
Cast: Documentary
Genre: Documentary | Gay & Lesbian. Transgender. Politics
Synopsis / Plot: 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.

Awards: 2020: Sundance Film Festival: Special Jury Prize - Documentary

Critics' reviews

"Hard-hitting, emotionally charged and frequently distressing (...) All this is chilling stuff"

David Rooney: The Hollywood Reporter
"Vital, pulse-quickening (...) Wholly devastating"

Guy Lodge: Variety
"It’s France’s bravest film yet, and a noble conclusion to his trilogy (...) [It] balances its more journalistic reporting with equally compelling human stories"

Jude Dry: IndieWire
"France engages the audience by giving us personal insight into Grisha and Anya and other escapees (...) [It] has the potential to rally global humanitarian concern for this tragedy."

Alonso Duralde: The Wrap
"Both carefully reported and deeply felt, it seems assured to win critical accolades, and simultaneously engage and outrage sympathetic audiences"

Stephen Whitty: Screendaily

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