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Welcome to Chechnya

7.4

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Original title: Welcome to Chechnya
Year: 2020
Running time: 107 min.
Country: United States
Director: David France
Screenwriter: David France, Tyler H. Walk
Music: Evgueni Galperine, Sacha Galperine
Cinematography: Askold Kurov, Derek Wiesehahn
Cast: Documentary
Producer: Public Square Films
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: Berlin Film Festival: Panorama Audience Award (Best Documentary)

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
"Always tense and important, 'Welcome to Chechnya' felt like one of, if not the most important piece of filmmaking at the entire festival (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"

Michael Frank: Ready Steady Cut
"The intimacy and immediacy of the filmmaking can (...) produce moments of enormous tenderness (...) A moving and vital indictment of mass persecution"

Jeannette Catsoulis: The New York Times
"'Welcome to Chechnya' is both astonishingly groundbreaking in its use of technology, and difficult to watch. It potentially opens new doors to filmmakers and journalists (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"

Monica Castillo: rogerebert.com
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