WELCOME TO CHECHNYA

By David FRANCE

SUBMARINE ENTERTAINMENT - as SALES

Documentary - Completed 2020


Festivals
& Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2020
U.S. Documentary Competition
Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2020
Panorama AUDIENCE AWARD, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARD, PANRAMA AUDIENCE AWARD
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, RUSSIAN
    • Duration
    • 107 mn
    • Director(s)
    • David FRANCE
    • Synopsis
    • Searing urgency is a guiding force as 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 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.