Welcome to Chechnya

David France

 

2020

In Chechnya there are no homosexuals. The tyrannical leader Ramzan Kadyrov has determined that. And if there are, they need to get out. Welcome to Chechnya follows a group of activists who put their lives on the line to save LGBTQ+ people under persecution from the Chechen authorities as well as from their own families. The goal is to end the persecution, but also to survive. The film won several awards at the Berlinale and the Sundance Film Festival, and is directed by David France, previously nominated for an Academy Award for the film How to Survive a Plague.

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